1. Samuel Greig was present at naval engagements at the Capture of Goree, the Battle of Quiberon Bay and the Battle of Havana.
13 Facts About Samuel Greig
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Samuel Greig was promoted to acting lieutenant in 1761 but the Royal Navy took several years to confirm this rank.
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When Catherine II of Russia became Empress in 1762 the Imperial Russian Navy needed revamping, and the court of Russia requested the government of Great Britain to send out some skilled British naval officers to improve Russian capabilities; Lieutenant Greig was selected as one of them.
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Samuel Greig entered the Russian service in 1764; his superior abilities there soon attracted the notice of the Russian government, and he was speedily promoted to the rank of captain.
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Samuel Greig was father to Alexey Greig, admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, who would go on to have his own spectacular career in the Russian Navy.
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Alexey Samuel Greig would become a privy counsellor and knight of all the Imperial Russian Orders.
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Samuel Greig was father-in-law to Scottish science writer and polymath, Mary Somerville who was a distant cousin of his.
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Samuel Greig is buried in Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery in St Petersburg.
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When some time after the war broke out between the Russians and the Turks, Captain Samuel Greig was sent in 1770 under the command of Count Alexey Orlov and Admiral Grigory Spiridov, with a fleet to the Mediterranean.
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At one o'clock in the morning, Captain Samuel Greig bore down upon the enemy with his fire ships and succeeded in totally destroying the Turkish fleet.
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Samuel Greig continued indefatigable in his exertions in improving the Russian fleet, remodeling its code of discipline, and by his example infusing a spirit into every department of its economy, which finally made it one of the most formidable marines in Europe.
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Admiral Samuel Greig was then swept away by the Russo-Swedish War that broke out in the summer of 1788.
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Samuel Greig fought an inconclusive battle against the Swedish navy during the Battle of Hogland and he then went to the Swedish fortress of Sveaborg, which he put under a blockade.