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understand it, and the Croats, Ruthenians, and other sections of the
Composite Monarchy maintaining that the substitution of Magyar would
not help them. We know for certain that the inability of Admiral
Thomas Gordon to speak Russian was the cause of friction between him
and the Dane, Sievers ; he certainly spoke Dutch, but that cannot have
carried him very far in Muscovy. Some of the Scots had, however, been
so long abroad that they had practically become foreigners ; such an one
was the John Gordon, a fellow-prisoner of the lai' o^ ' uchleuchries,
who describes him " ein volliger Deutscher". In some cases these
soldiers settled permanently abroad, and founded military families. The
best-known example comes from Poland, where Lady Catherine Gordon
and Lord Henry Gordon, twin children of the 2nd Marquis of Huntly,
were taken when young, and acquired a firm footing through the
marriage of Lady Catherine with Count Andreas Morsztyn, the Grand
Treasurer of Poland. To this day there is a Marquis Huntly Gordon
in Warsaw, who claims descent from Lord Henry. The descent is not
quite clear at its start, but there is undoubtedly a closely related group
of military Gordons who came out of Poland : —
John James Gordon, " Marquis of Huntly,"
said to be Lord Henry's grandson.
Col., Polisli Army : alive 1694
Peter Gordon
Judge at Czerniechow
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Joseph Felix, Karol, Franciszek,
1742-1811, d. s.p. 1820, d. 1826,
Saxon Army Polish Army General, Poland
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Ferdinand Heinrich Joseph von Gordon, Karol,
Saxon Life Guards : d. 1846 b. 1818
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Franz von, Oscar Ivan, Franciszek,
d. 1S71, (/. igog, Marquis
Saxon Light Horse Austrian Army of Huntly
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Felix, Rudolf, Oscar,
i85g-75, b. 1863, b. 1873,
Cadet Hesse Army German Navy