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See also:SKONELEV, MIKHAIL DIMITRIIVICH (1843-1882) , See also:Russian See also:general, was See also:born near See also:Moscow on the 29th of See also:September 1843. After graduating as a See also:staff officer at St See also:Petersburg he was sent to See also:Turkestan in 1868 and, with the exception of an See also:interval of two years, during which he was on the staff of the See also:grand See also:duke See also:Michael in the See also:Caucasus, remained in Central See also:Asia until 1877. He commanded the advanced guard of General Lomakine's See also:column from Kinderly See also:Bay, in the See also:Caspian, to join General Verefkin, from See also:Orenburg, in the expedition to See also:Khiva in 1874, and, after See also:great suffering on the See also:desert See also:march, took a prominent See also:part in the See also:capture of the Khivan See also:capital. Dressed as a See also:Turkoman, he intrepidly explored in a hostile See also:country the route from Khiva to Igdy, and also the old See also:bed of the See also:Oxus. In 1875 he was given an important command in the expedition against See also:Khokand under General See also:Kaufmann, showing great capacity in the See also:action of Makram, where he out-See also:man ceuvred a greatly See also:superior force and captured 58 guns, and in a brilliant See also:night attack in the See also:retreat from See also:Andijan, when he routed a large force with a handful of See also:cavalry. He was promoted to be See also:major-general, decorated with the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of St See also:George, and appointed the first See also:governor of Fergana. In the See also:Turkish See also:War of 1877 he seized the See also:bridge over the Sereth at Barborchi in See also:April, and in See also:June crossed the See also:Danube with the 8th See also:corps. He commanded the Caucasian Cossack See also:Brigade in the attack of the See also:Green Hills at the second See also:battle of See also:Plevna. He captured Lovtcha on the 3rd of September, and distinguished himself again in the desperate fighting on the Green Hills in the third battle of Plevna. Promoted to be a See also:lieutenant-general, and given the command of the 16th See also:Division, he took part in the investment of Plevna and also in the fight of the 9th of See also:December, when See also:Osman See also:Pasha surrendered, with his See also:army. In See also:January 1878 he crossed the Balkans in a severe snowstorm,
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defeating the See also:Turks at Senova, near Schipka, and capturing 36,000 men and 90 guns. Dressed with care in See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:uniform and mounted on a white See also:horse, and always in the thickest of the fray, he was known and adored by his soldiers as the " White General." He returned to Turkestan after the war, and in 188o and 1881 further distinguished himself in retrieving the disasters inflicted by the Tekke Turkomans, captured Geok-Tepe, and, after much slaughter, reduced the Akhal-Teke country to submission. He was advancing on See also:Askabad and See also:Kalat i-Nadiri when he was disavowed and recalled. He was given the command at See also:Minsk. In the last years of his See also:short See also:life he engaged actively in politics, and made speeches in See also:Paris and in Moscow in the beginning of 1882 in favour of a militant Panslavism; predicting a desperate strife between Teuton and Slay. He was at once recalled to St Petersburg. He was staying at a Moscow hotel, on his way from Minsk to his See also:estate See also:close by, when he died suddenly of See also:heart disease on the 7th of See also:July 1882.
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