Menschikoff, Alexander Sergeievitch, general, great-grandson of the former, served in the wars of 1812-15, in the Turkish campaign of 1828, was ambassador to the Porte in 1853, and largely responsible for the Crimean War, in which he commanded at Alma, Inkermann, and Sebastopol (1789‒1869).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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