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... also, R. Kh. Baur). Born 1667; died 1717. Russian cavalry general (1717).Bour was a cavalry captain in the Swedish Army; he defected to the Russian Army in September 1700 at Narva during the Northern War and was accepted into military service. Until 1704 he commanded some dragoon regiments in the Baltic region and from 1707 to 1709, a cavalry corps, which ...

... also, R. Kh. Baur). Born 1667; died 1717. Russian cavalry general (1717).Bour was a cavalry captain in the Swedish Army; he defected to the Russian Army in September 1700 at Narva during the Northern War and was accepted into military service. Until 1704 he commanded some dragoon regiments in the Baltic region and from 1707 to 1709, a cavalry corps, which ...

... also, R. Kh. Baur). Born 1667; died 1717. Russian cavalry general (1717).Bour was a cavalry captain in the Swedish Army; he defected to the Russian Army in September 1700 at Narva during the Northern War and was accepted into military service. Until 1704 he commanded some dragoon regiments in the Baltic region and from 1707 to 1709, a cavalry corps, which ...

Religious dispute in the Church of England during the early part of the reign of George I. Benjamin Hoadly, bishop of Bangor, Wales, delivered a sermon (1717) before the king in which he denied that the church had any doctrinal or disciplinary authority. Advocates of ecclesiastical authority (among them William Law ) attacked Hoadly's position, and a sharp controversy ensued, in which some 50 ...

... before becoming a Christian, Devlet-Kizden-Murza). Died 1717. A Kabardin prince in the Russian service.In 1707, Bekovich-Cherkasskii was sent abroad by Peter I to study. Upon his return to Russia he was sent on a diplomatic mission to the land of the Kabardins. In 1717 he headed an expedition (of about 5,000 men) to Khiva where he was to negotiate with the ...