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Count James George Gordon (c. 1670-aft. 1711) was a soldier. , but Scottish and German parents, educated in and France, and Order of St John of, in which capaicty he visited Malta as an envoy of the Polish.

James Gordon was the second son of the Scottish soldier-of-fortune Patrick Gordon, from his first marriage to Katherine von Bockhoven (c. ), the daughter of a German officer. The first son, seems to have been, neither or scholar, and opted to. In 1686, James was being educated at Memel, but his father, fearing Protestant tendancies, moved him to the Scots College at Douai in.

By 1690, he had returned to, helping his father make fireworks for , and he participated. In 1699, he succeded his father as colonel of the Butyrsky Regiment, Grenadiers, and at around the same, he was was Count - states that of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1701. an indication that.

In 1700, he was captured, presumably the at. After about two years as a prisoner of war in Sweden, he escaped and in 1702 he commanded the assault during the successful recapture of the fortress of Shlisselburg, for which he was rewarded with. Subsequently to the rank of Brigadier.

Some time between 1700 and, made the decision to join the , for which he received from both and. In this capacity, he was sent to Malta in 1711 as the envoy of the, Stanisla, to the Ostrog, which had been.