Édouard Pottier
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Édouard Pottier was a French admiral. During his career, he served in various regions of the world and took part in the operations leading to the occupation of Veracruz in 1861 during the Second Frenc
Edouard Pottier
"The Admirals of the Powers in Cretan Waters" (Sketch from Black and White, 10 April 1897). Pottier, serving at the time as commander of the French contribution to the International Squadron, is second from left.
Illustration of units of the International Squadron arriving at Suda Bay, Crete, on 21 December 1898. Pottier's flagship, the protected cruiser Bugeaud, carrying Prince George of Greece and Denmark, who will take up duty as High Commissioner of the Cretan State, leads the column at right. She is followed (right to left) by the Russian armored cruiser Gerzog Edinburgski, the British battleship HMS Revenge, and the Italian battleship Francesco Morosini.
Gerzog Edinburgski was an armoured cruiser of the General-Admiral class built for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was the sister ship of General-Admiral and was named after Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Édouard Pottier
…protected cruiser Bugeaud – accompanied by the squadron's Italian flagship, the battleship Francesco Morosini, its Russian flagship, the armored cruiser Gerzog Edinburgski with the senior Russian commander Rear Admiral Nicholas Skrydloff aboard, and its British flagship, the battleship HMS Revenge with Rear-Admiral Gerard…
The Russian armoured cruiser Gerzog Edinburgski