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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
The admirals who conducted British squadrons to the Baltic in the successive years 1715 to 1721 and in 1726 and 1727— Sir John Norris, Sir George Byng (afterwards Viscount Torrington), Sir Charles Wager—have their proper recognition in the Dictionary of National Biography. Details of the doings of the two former in the earlier period will be found in the editor's George I and the Northern War.
page 78 note 1 General-Admiral Count Hans Wachtmeister, equally famous with his brother Field-Marshal Count Axel.
page 83 note 1 For whom see the English Historical Review, XVIII (1903), p. 692Google Scholar, note.
page 86 note 1 British ambassador at Paris.
page 88 note 1 A man employed by Norris, and furnished for the service by Count Gyllenborg, the Swedish minister in London, to carry the memorial to Charles XII. As he returned from Sweden in the company of Baron Goertz it is probable that he was the Stambke who became Goertz' secretary and was arrested with him in Holland in February 1717.
page 89 note 1 British envoy at Copenhagen.
page 95 note 1 Peter the Great had offered Norris a Russian decoration.
page 99 note 1 Wismar had been reduced by the confederates against Sweden in April 1716 and occupied by Danish with exclusion of the Russian troops. Report now ran that Peter the Great designed to seize the place.
page 103 note 1 Presumably Jan Gerrit, Baron van Wassenaer van Duvenvoorde, lieut.-admiral.