Excerpt from The Chronicles of a Gay GordonThese Virile venturers group themselves into four cate gories. Illustrating them by reference to the Gordons alone, there was the venturer, usually a soldier of fortune, who died in the country of his adoption, such as the well known General Patrick Gordon, of Auchleuchries, Aber deenshire (1635 who, having spent thirty-nine years of faithful service to Peter the Great, died and was buried at Moscow. ...
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