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  Georg Magnus Sprengtporten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Count Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, or Göran Magnus Sprengtporten as he preferred to call himself, (1740-1819), Swedish and Russian politician, younger brother of Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten, entered the army and rose to the rank of captain during the Seven Years' War.
He assisted his brother in the revolution of 1772, and in 1775 was made a colonel and brigadier of Savo brigade in east Finland.
After Paul’s death Sprengtporten was again in disgrace for seven years, but was consulted in 1808 on the eve of the outbreak of hostilities with France.
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 The historical significance of the Finland-Swedes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Karl Fredrik Mennander (1712-86), a naturalist, lectured in philosophy, became Professor of Physics at Turku, Bishop of Turku, and was eventually chosen Archbishop of Sweden.
Baron Jakob Magnus Sprengtporten (1727-86), an officer, laid down the broad outlines for the coup d'état that King Gustavus III staged in 1772.
Georg ("Göran") Magnus Sprengtporten (1740-1819), an officer and politician, initiated various improvements of the defence of Finland, above all the founding of a military college in eastern Finland.
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 Georg Magnus Sprengtporten -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was re-employed by the emperor (additional info and facts about Paul of Russia) Paul of Russia who, in 1800, sent him to negotiate with (French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)) Napoleon concerning the (additional info and facts about Maltese Order) Maltese Order and the interchange of prisoners.
On December 1, 1808 he was appointed the first Russian (additional info and facts about Governor-General of Finland) Governor-General of Finland with the title of count, but was so unpopular that he had to resign his post the following year.
The last ten years of his life were lived in retirement.
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 Encyclopedia: List of Finns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Magnus Lindberg (born June 27, 1958) is a Finnish composer.
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld by Georg von Rosen Baron (Nils) Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, also known as A. Nordenskioeld (November 18, 1832, Helsinki,Finland (then Grand Duchy of Finland) — August 12, 1901,Dalby, Skåne, Sweden) was a geologist, mineralogist and arctic explorer of Finland-Swedish extraction.
Georg Henrik von Wright (June 14, 1916 – June 16, 2003) was a Finland-Swedish philosopher, who succeeded Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge.
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George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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 Encyclopedia: Georg Magnus Sprengtporten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Image File history File links Description: Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, Swedish count and the first Governor-General of Finland Source: Suomen historia (Third Edition, published in 1926 in Finland; First Edition was published in 1906) by K. Lindeqvist (1858–1927).
Events May 31 - Friedrich II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I. October 20 - Maria Theresia of Austria inherits the Habsburg hereditary dominions (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and present-day Belgium).
Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten (1727-1786) was a Swedish soldier and politician.
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 Georg Magnus Sprengtporten - rFind.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Fotografen Georg Oddner har bestämt sig för att donera ett trettiotal verk till Statens Porträttsamling på Gripsholms slott.
Georg Oddner, som sedan länge hör till våra mest betydande fotografer, donerar ett trettiotal verk till Statens porträttsamling på Gripsholms slott - en del av Nationalmuseums samlingar.
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 The United States During Its First Century of Independence as it Appeared in Finnish Print (1776-1880)
A prominent Finnish officer named Georg Magnus Sprengtporten also intended to go to America as a mercenary.
The educated class therefore wanted to impress on the minds of the people on "lower" levels of society that it did not pay to migrate across the Atlantic, and therefore representing the United States in a negative light seemed to be the right thing to do.
Sakari Kuusi, Yrjö Maunu Sprengtporten, Jyväskylä 1971, pp.
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People may make false claims about their past or background - that they can sing, for example - without being full-blown impostors; non-existent military service seems common.
Only if a significant part of their past is fabricated - like that of George Dupre who claimed to have been an SOE agent in World War Two - they approach the admittedly hazy border.
George Psalmanazar, who claimed to be from Formosa
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 Main Document - Swedish-Russian War
On April 16, a skirmish was fought in Pyhäjoki, where the Swedish troops repelled two attacks made by the Russians under Kulnev.
The Swedish commander, Georg Carl von Döbeln, gave the order of retreat though, as this was part of Klingspor's initial plan.
On this day Carl Johan Adlercreutz was made second in command to Wilhelm Mauritz Klingspor.
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He published upwards of 150 works, including a Catalogue of the Bishops of the Principal Sees; Greek Epistles; Accounts of his Journeys, in Latin verse; a Commentary on Plautus; a treatise on Numismatics; Euclid in Latin; and the Lives of Helius Eobanus Hessus, George of Anhalt and Philipp Melanchthon.
War, and then, exchanging the military for the civil service, became head ranger or överjägmästare of the County of Kristianstad.
Royal conspirator During the Riksdag of 1771-1772 the dominant "Caps" deprived him of his post, and Toll, shrewdly guessing that the king was preparing a revolution, almost forced his services on the conspirators, Georg Magnus Sprengtporten declaring that a man who knew
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He predeceased his father, but three of his sons became successively earls of Bristol.
Hervey wrote detailed and brutally frank memoirs of the court of George II from 1727 to 1737.
He gave a most unflattering account of the king, and of Frederick, prince of Wales, and their
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 Food For Thought: Biographies
Sandys, George (English colonist, poet; brother of Sir Edwin)
Sanger, George (English circus proprietor; brother of John)
Scudery, Georges de (French writer; brother of Madeleine)
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 Old Letter´s / Autogrph´s collection
1776-02-08 : Letter to Georg Magnus Sprengtporten with information about military matter.
" Brev till Georg Magnus Sprengtporten med underrättelse om generalmönstring av Savolax fotgägare corps, att hållas av Greve Sparre.
Egenhändigt undertecknat Stockholms slott den 8 februarii 1776.
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