Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-09-08


The O'Donnels are an old family in Ireland to
whom the former province of Tyrconnell and the
present county of Donegal belonged. They lost
their possessions from continual hostilities with the
O'Neals, but UPON the destruction of their enemies,
under Queen Elizabeth they received them back
again. The brother of the gallant Hugh Roe ODon-
nell, Rory or Roderick O'D., was created Baron OF
Donegal and Count of Tyrconnell by James IL. Up.
the expulsion of James H. from the English throne,
and his attempt to defend Ireland, the ODonnels raj
lied under the standard of the Stuarts and after the
disastrous battle of the Boyne, they were. in conse
quence, Obliged to leave the country. portion OF
them, under the title of Counts of Tyrconnel, set
tied in Austria, where they attained TO high posts OF
State. Charles Count O'Donnel, of Tyrconnell, en-
tered the imperial service, and at the battle of Pac
enza obtained the grade Of general. In 1756 he
fought in Bohemia, and after the battle of Labosiz,
he was made lieutenant feld-marshal, and in the bat
tie of Kollin he commanded the cavalry, and was
promoted to the post of general. After the wound
inchief, but only to reconduct the army to Bohemia
He was less fortunate in Silesia, where he was de-
feated in 1761, at Reichenbach, and compelled to
surrender Schweidntz. In 1864 he commanded in
the Netherlands, and in 176s appointed govern.
or of Pennsylvania He died at Vienna in 1910.
Leopold O'Donnell, the present Minister of War,
the second son of the Count of Abispal after 1888
fought against Don Carlos, and obtained the rank of
general of division AS partisan of the Queen Re-
gent Maria Christina, he rendered her great services
cia. He lived for short time afterwards in France,
then went 10 Bilbao and attempted rising in Octo-
ber l84l, in favor of the ex-regent at Pampeluna,
which, however, his cousin frustrated. He fled TO
France, but returned to Spain in l843 to help to
overthrow Espartero. The government hereupbn
sent him as governor to the island of Cuba, from
whence he was recalled in 1s4s, because of his eff
forts to suppress the slave trade Charles Count o.
Donne, the of the deceased captain general Of
Old CASTLE, formerly served colonel of the royal
V0Iu and in tho u0ffh fhn
Chrlstlana, he gained the rank of general, and for
some time likewise commanded the British legion
Devoted to The Regent Espartero in l841, he frus-
rated the rising of the Christmas at Pampeluna, and,
alter his fall, he went with him to England The
present head of the family of O'Donnells in Ireland,
is Sir Richard Annesley O'Donnell, baronet of New
penthouse, who inherited the title from his brother
Francis, Count o. O'Donnel. was Austrian Minister
OF Finance in 1900, but died in the following year.
Count O'Donnell, of Tyrconnell Austrian lieutenant
field Marshall, married Christina, daughter of the
Prince of Lgne, and died December l, 1843. His
eldest son, Macmillan Charles Lamoral, Count o.
Donnel of Tyrconnell, born October 90, 1872 is an
Austrian lieutenant and adjutant of the Emperor
Francis JOSEPH and distinguished himself by his cou-
rage and presence of mind during the attempt TO as
sassinate that monarch February 1s, 1853
The ODonnells who settled in Spain have distin-
guished themselves with no less honor Joseph Hen.
ry ODonnell, Count of AbspaI. entered the Spanish
Guards, and engaged in the campaign of 1895 against
the French In the Spanish of insurrection
against Napoleon he rose to the rank of General,
and obtained the title of Count by the victory at La
Bspal but in 1910 and 1911 he was several times
defeated, and at last he imprisoned in conse-
quence Of dispute with the Cortes Ferdinand VII
appointed him captain. general of Andalusa, and in
1913 Governor Of Cadiz; in 1919 he received the
command of division of troops for the South Amer
lean colonies. Before he set sail, the conspiracy
broke out in the island of Leon, which he endeavor-
ed in vain to put down. The King thereupon gave
him the command of the troops in the province Of La
Mancha, at the head of whom he declared, on the
expedition to Galics, for the Constitution of Oceana
He conducted himself in such dubious manner as
to lose the confidence of the Constitutionaliss. Up
on the invasion of the French, in 1923, with the as
sistance of a corpse under Gen. ODay, be obtained
some advantages over the enemy and then took the
command of the reserve troops who were to cover
Madrid. On account, however, of his negotiations
with the Royast party, he was compelled by his
own soldiers to lay down The command. In his at
tempt to escape to France he taken prisoner by
the consutonalists at Villareal. After the French
had set him free again, he went 10 Bordeaux, and
thence to Limoges where he settled, In 1884 he set
out TO return to Spain, but died at Montpelier from
grief at the shooting of his by the Carlst chief,
Zumala Carreguy. His brother, Henry Charles o.
Donnell, died in 1880, Captain. General of Old
Castile-North Carolinan.