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61 SIRIO 23 (1878): 446, CII to Grimm 25 April 1788. The general sources for John Paul Jones, apart from Russian archives and the unpublished correspondence with GAP, are three biographies: John Paul Jones: A Sailor’s Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison; The Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones by George R. Preedy; and The Life of John Paul Jones by James Otis.

62 RGVIA 52.2.56.1, GAP to Baron Simolin 5/16 March 1788, unpublished.

63 RGVIA 52.2.82.1, GAP to N-S 26 March 1788, Elisabethgrad, unpublished.

64 MIRF 15: 98, 188, GAP to Mordvinov 29 February 1788 quoted in Christie, Benthams in Russia pp 218–21.

65 BM 33540 f488, SB to JB 12/23 October 1788.

66 RGVIA 52.2.64.8, Ségur to GAP 2/13 May 1788, unpublished.

67 Aragon p 223, N-S to wife 4 June 1788.

68 Damas pp 31–2.

69 Aragon p 225, N-S to wife.

70 Tott vol 3 p 24. Damas pp 44–5. Ligne, Letters (Staël) p 88, Ligne to JII August 1788.

71 Tott vol 3 p 24. Anspach, Journey p 191, Lady Craven to Anspach 25 April 1786, Constantinople.

72 SIRIO 27: 480, CII to GAP 27 May 1788.

73 BM 33540 f488, SB to JB 12/23 October 1788.

74 Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 p 20.

75 RGVIA 52.2.82.1 GAP to N-S 2 April 1788 ud. RGVIA 52.2.82.4, GAP to N-S ud. Both unpublished.

76 J. P. Jones to José de Ribas 11/22 June 1788, quoted in Morison pp 374–8.

77 RGVIA 52.2.82.13, GAP to N-S, unpublished.

78 RGVIA 52.2.82.12, GAP to N-S 10 June 1788, unpublished.

79 Colonel Henry Fanshawe quoted in Christie, ‘SB and the Flotilla’ p 191.

80 Morison pp 379–81.

81 BM 33540 f489, SB to Jeremiah Bentham 12/23 October 1788.

82 BM 33554 ff90–1, Fanshawe 18 June 1788.

83 Damas p 45.

84 Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 p 21.

85 Aragon p 238, N-S to wife 28 and 29 June 1788. RS (1875) June p 160, GAP to Suvorov.

86 Aragon p 236, N-S to wife 25 June 1788.

87 RGVIA fVUA 2388.13, L 296, GAP to CII June 1788.

88 M. S. Bentham p 89, quoted in Christie ‘SB and the Flotilla’. BM 33540 f490, GAP to SB.

89 Aragon p 250, N-S to wife.

90 SIRIO 23 (1878): 446, CII to Grimm 31 May 1787.

91 RGADA 5.85.2.124, L 305, CII to GAP 19 July 1788, St Petersburg. It is said that Tatiana Engelhardt’s husband Mikhail Potemkin, who was in St Petersburg as General-Kreigskommissar or inspector-general of the army from 1783, and Mamonov joined forces in 1788 to counter the arguments of A. R. Vorontsov, Zavadovsky and Orlov-Chesmensky about GAP’s conduct of the war. See ‘M. S. Potemkin’ in Russkiy Biographicheskiy Slovar vol 14 (1904).

92 RGADA 5.85.2.121, L 302, CII to GAP 17 July 1788.

93 AVPRI 5.585.260, L 304, GAP to CII 18 July 1788, Ochakov.

94 RGADA 5.85.2.115, L 299, CII to GAP 3 July 1788.

95 BM 33554 d92–3 June 1788.

96 RS (1889) no 9 p 510, Prince Y. V. Dolgoruky. Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 p 95, Ligne to JII 12 July 1788. RGADA 5.85.2.119, L 301, CII to GAP 13 July 1788, St Petersburg.

CHAPTER 27: CRY HAVOC: THE STORMING OF OCHAKOV

1 For the main sources for this account of the Second Turkish War, see Chapter 26, note I. BM 33554 ff93–4, Henry Fanshawe July 1788, unpublished.

2 B&F vol 2 p 170, JII to Count Cobenzl 16 June 1787, Kherson.

3 Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 pp 21–3, 2 July 1788, Ochakov.

4 Aragon p 255, N-S to wife.

5 RS (1895) 9 p 175. Ligne, Mélanges vol 7 p 194, Prince de Ligne to Comte de Ségur 1 October 1788, Ochakov.

6 BM 33540 f489, SB to JB ud.

7 Petrushevsky vol 1 p 327.

8 Damas pp 58–9. Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 p 123, Ligne to JII 11 August 1788.

9 RS (1895) September pp 175–6, Roman Maximovich Tsebrikov, Vokrug ochakova 1788 god (dnevnikochevidtsa). RS (1875) May p 38, GAP to A. V. Suvorov 27 July 1788.

10 Damas pp 56–9. Aragon pp 256–8, N-S to wife. Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 p 129, Ligne to JII 20 August 1788; p 176, Ligne to Cobenzl. An unpublished letter from GAP to Nassau-Siegen dated from July/August 1788 was recently placed on the market by Maggs Brothers of London in their Catalogue 1275 of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents, lot 149. The undated letter, handwritten by GAP in French, recounts that Admiral Mark Voinovich is covering the Capitan-Pasha’s approach from the Black Sea so that Nassau-Siegen can water his men in Kinburn during the day and ‘at night return to the current position’. It is typical of GAP’s sympathetic attitude to his men that he specifies that they should be allowed time on land. Its price was £1,200.

11 Damas pp 56–7. Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 p 129, Ligne to JII 20 August 1788, Ochakov.

12 RGADA 5.85.2.136–7, L 311, CII to GAP 31 August 1788.

13 Samoilov col 1260.

14 RS (1875) May pp 21–33, GAP to Suvorov April 1788.

15 Ligne, Letters (Staël) p 87, Ligne to JII August 1788.