Semyon Georgievich Gangeblov (May 24, 1757 – February 17, 1827) was a Russian

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 military commander of the Napoleonic Wars

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. He came of the Georgian

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 noble family Gangeblidze (Gangeblishvili; განგებლიძე, განგებლიშვილი), which emigrated to Russia in 1724.

Born in Moscow

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, Gangeblov joined the Russian army

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 in 1771 and took part in the war with the Ottoman Empire

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, being one of the first who climbed the Ochakov citadel

Siege of Ochakov (1789)

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 in 1788. During Suvorov's Polish campaign

Kosciuszko Uprising

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 of 1794, he commanded a battalion which silenced a Polish battery and took hold

Battle of Praga

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 of a bridge over the Vistula

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 between Warsaw

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 and its suburb Praga

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. He was promoted to major-general and put in command of the 2nd Jäger

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 Polk

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 in 1799. Gangeblov fought against the North Caucasian mountaineers in 1807 and took part in an abortive attempt at landing at the Ottoman port of Trabzon

Trabzon

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 in 1810. He was sacked for this failure, but restored to his position in 1811. During Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, Gangeblov’s regiment was attached to the Danube

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 army and participated in the pursuit of the French

First French Empire

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 army into Germany

Germany

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 in 1813. Severely injured at the Battle of Bautzen

Battle of Bautzen

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, he finally retired in 1818.