GARIOCH, GEORGE [SSNE 3888]
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Captain George Garioch. This is possibly the man they meant when they said "a certain captain Garioch was not good enough to be a captain, and a certain Stuart was not good enough to be a soldier". George Garioch was hired in 1647 in Holland to serve the Tsar together with James Stewart and William Bruce. Despite his unimpressive display of skills at a muster he was not turned down.
W. Barnhill and P. Dukes, 'North-east Scots in Muscovy in the seventeenth century' in Northern Scotland, vol. 1, no. 1, 1972, pp.49-63.
Service record
- RUSSIA, RUSSIAN ARMY
- Departed 1647-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY