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Memoirs and Papers of Sir Andrew Mitchell, K. B. (Volume 2); Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Great Britain to the C - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. THE EARL MARISCHAL OF SCOTLAND AND HIS BROTHER FIELDMARSHAL KEITH DUNOTTAR CASTLE STRANGE VICISSITUDES OF FORTUNE OF THE TWO BROTHERS JAMES KEITH ENTERS THE SPANISH SERVICE--CHANGES IT FOR THE RUSSIAN RISE OF THE RUSSIAN MONARCHY POLICY OF PETER THE GREAT CHARLES XII. OF SWEDEN MAZEPPA THE UKRAINE EFFECT OF CHARLES's RASHNESS ON THE FUTURE FATE OF EUROPE--STILL FURTHER PROMOTED BY THE RASHNESS OF NAPOLEON--GENERAL KEITH AND THE TURKISH GRAND VIZIER, SON OF THE BELLMAN OF KIRKALDY KEITH, GOVERNOR OF THE UKRAINE CHANGES THE RUSSIAN SERVICE FOR THE PRUSSIAN MADE FIELD-MARSHAL BY FREDERIC HIS DEATH AT THE BATTLE OF HOCHK1RCH. Among the many distinguished men with whom Mitchell's eventful life brought him into intimacy and friendship, and whose letters are found among his papers, there are none to whom a greater interest attaches than the two Keiths, George Keith, Earl Marischal of Scotland, and Field-Marshal James Keith. These two brothers, the representatives of a long line1 of warriors and nobles, and the elder of whom derived his title through an uninterrupted male descent from a time when the names of Bruce and Douglas, of De Vere and Plantagenet were unknown in Britain, struggled manfully against all 1 Their ancestors had been great Marischals and Earl Marischals of Scotland for more than 700 years. See Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 184, et aeq. the ills of poverty and exile, and by their talents and virtues won for themselves a name and station in a foreign country and under another standard than that which their fathers had followed to so many battles. Mr. Lockhart, in his most interesting Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, informs us that it was during a visit to the ruins of their huge old fortress, Dunottar Castle, in...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217967426
- ISBN 13 9780217967426
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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