Sergey Nikolayevich Ushakov
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Сергей Николаевич Ушаков (Sergey Nikolayevich Ushakov) was a Russian cavalry officer of the Napoleonic period who reached the rank of генерал-майор (major general). He was born in 1776 in the village of Potykino in the Yaroslavl region to a noble family; his father was Nikolai Ivanovich Ushakov, connected with the Military Collegium, and his mother was Ekaterina Vasilyevna Telyakovskaya. He was the brother of Pavel Nikolayevich Ushakov, who also became a senior general officer.
Ushakov entered service in 1790 when he was recorded in the Life Guards Horse Regiment as a non-commissioned officer (вахмистр). After several years on the rolls he received his first officer commission in 1799 as a cornette (корнет) in the same guards cavalry environment. His early commissioned progression was steady: he was promoted to Lieutenant (поручик) in 1800, to staff captain (штабс-ротмистр) in 1802, and to captain (ротмистр) in 1803. These promotions place him in the core cadre of the guard and guard-associated cavalry that furnished trained officers for field formations during the coalition wars.
In the wars against Napoleonic France he served in mounted roles consistent with his branch, and by the later stages of the Napoleonic conflict he had attained general-officer status as a cavalry commander, being styled a commander of the era of the Napoleonic wars and holding the rank of генерал-майор. He died in 1814.
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X 06-07 Eylau, Heilsberg, Friedland; X 14 Craonne (KIA)