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Russian faith, honour, & courage displayed in a faithfull narrative of the Russian Expedition by sea in the years 1769 & 1770 / by Rear Admiral John Elphinstone late Commander in Chief of a squadron of Her Imperial Majesty's ships & captain in His Majesty's Royal Navy compiled from original letters, papers & journals ; edited by Julia Leikin and Elena Smilianskaia.
Van Pelt Library G161 .H2 3rd ser.:no.43
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elphinston, John, 1722-1785, author.
- Series:
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 3rd ser., no. 43.
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; third series, no. 43
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elphinston, John, 1722-1785.
- Elphinston, John.
- Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774.
- Russia--History, Naval--18th century--Sources.
- Russia.
- Russia--History--1689-1801.
- Russia--History--Catherine II, 1762-1796.
- Turkey--History--Mustafa III, 1757-1773.
- Turkey.
- Turkey--History--Abdul Hamid I, 1774-1789.
- Great Britain--History--1760-1789.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 327 pages, 12 pages of plates : color maps, facsimile, portrait ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Russian faith, honour, and courage displayed in a faithfull narrative of the Russian Expedition by sea in the years 1769 and 1770
- Russian faith, honor, & courage displayed in a faithful narrative of the Russian Expedition by sea in the years 1769 & 1770
- Place of Publication:
- London : Published by The Boydell Press for the Hakluyt Society, 2024.
- Summary:
- Volume 44 in the Hakluyt Society Third Series is Russian Faith, Honour & Courage Displayed in a Faithfull Narrative of the Russian Expedition by Sea in the Years 1769 & 1770, British Captain John Elphinstone's four-volume account of his two years in the Russian navy, serving the Russian Empress Catherine the Great. The Faithfull Narrative contains descriptions of his voyage from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, movements through the Aegean Sea, and commentary on the activities of the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russian-Ottoman War of 1768-74. Elphinstone offers one of the few first-hand accounts of the expedition and the celebrated Battle of Chesme (1770), which gave the Russian empire its maritime credentials. The text covers the squadron's movements around the Aegean Sea, including the major events and incidents of 1770: the Battle of Chesme, the siege of Lemnos, the loss of Elphinstone's flagship, Sviatoslav. The final part of the text sees Elphinstone return to St Petersburg in 1771 and then to London at the end of that year, to deal with the repercussions of the voyage to the Mediterranean.--Hakluyt Society website (viewed 1-17-25)
- Contents:
- 1. The Russian-Ottoman War of 1768-74
- 2. British-Russian Relations
- 3. The Russian Navy and Britain
- 4. John Elphinstone in the Service of Her Imperial Majesty
- 5. Elphinstone's Faithfull Narrative
- 6. The Text and Textual Conventions
- The Faithfull Narrative of John Elphinstone
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781916931022
- 1916931022
- OCLC:
- 1481689883
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