John Elphinstone

Wiki : John Elphinstone

I’m going round in circles here!

I’m very well aware that I have a subjective POV but…Things just are not adding up.

So. We have John Elphinstone, an Orkney man, working closely with Samuel Greig, a Fife man, in the Imperial Navy.

Both are under the command of —

Wiki : Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov

Who just happens to be the brother of —

Wiki : Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov

Who featured in an older post of mine —

21st July 2019 – WHO ORIGINALLY OWNED THE ORLOV DIAMOND?

What did Alexei Orlov do to Elphinstone?

Oh……

Admiral Elphinstone gets shafted and his fellow countryman and Admiral just carries on.

Bombarding Constantinople and everything else in the vicinity.

I don’t like it. Not One Little Bit :o(

But I may be wrong. Sigh.

The Ravens of Dinefwr Chronicles

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.