William Neville Gardiner
William Neville Gardiner (born 1748, died 1806) is a British diplomat and military.
He served in the British Army in the years 1767-1789, where he became a colonel. MEP in the Austrian Netherlands between 1789 and 1792. Deputy and Minister of the United Kingdom in the Commonwealth in 1792-1794.
When in November the Russian army led by General Alexander Suvorov appeared on the eastern bank of the Vistula and began assaulting Praga and the massacre, Colonel Gardiner and the papal nuncio Lorenzo Litta crossed the river to beg for the lives of the capital. Suvorov, at last he gave himself up. During Prague's slaughter he gave shelter to 300 people, keeping them fallen into debt, whose repayment stopped him in Warsaw until 1797. Bibliography
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