Adolphus Slade
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Sir Adolphus Slade C.B. (1804–13 Nov 1877) was a British Admiral who became Admiral of the Fleet in the Navy of the Sultan of Turkey.
He was the fifth son of General Sir John Slade
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He was the fifth son of General Sir John Slade
Sir John Slade, 1st Baronet
General Sir John "Black Jack" Slade, 1st Baronet, GCH served as a general officer in the British Army during the Peninsular War. He lacked talent as a combat leader. Though Slade was praised in official reports, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington criticized his actions privately and finally...
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Career
- 1815 Entered Navy
- 1827 Lieutenant
- 1841 Commander
- 1849 Captain
- 1849-66 Admiral in the Turkish navy, with the title of Mushaver (consulting) Pasha. This included the Crimean WarCrimean WarThe Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...
In 1854 his flagship was a 72-gun frigate - 1858 KCB
- 1866 Rear-Admiral
- 1867 Retired Rear-Admiral
- 1873 Retired Vice-Admiral
Books
Slade, who has been described as "one of the best nineteenth-century writers on the Middle East" wrote five books:- Records of Travels in Turkey and Greece &c and of a Cruise in the Black Sea with Captain Pasha (1833)
- Turkey, Greece and Malta (1837)
- Maritime States and Military Navies (1859)
- Turkey and the Crimean War: a narrative of historical events (1867)
- An Historical Catechism of the Church of England, from the Apostles’ times to the mission of St. Augustine. Compiled chiefly for the young (1883).