The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-01-27
TIL E DISPATCH
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 27. 1sss
DEATHS OF PROMINENT EU-
ROPEAN CHARACTERS.
The late General HaveIock.

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az b'shopwearmouth, in 1898, and educated at the
eharter House. About 1913, in consequence Of nd.
verse fortune. iDgress Park his fathers propertv
Ih heht, was sold tothe government, and HaveIock
| vas entered OF the Middle Temple, and attended
tne lectures of Chitty the eminent special pleadrr
| Where his most intimate associates WAS the late
CIR Thomas Talfourd, the author of sion, An Older
pIother had distinguished himself in the penins SUI
| i"aF " war ana at Waterloo, and Henry, Welding ia
'hc military propensites of his family endeayor.
| ed 10 OBTAIN commission. A month after Mater.
100 ne was appointed second lieutenant in the vi
.he '5thl, where his military training was
| asosteu oy captain afterwards SIR Harry Smith
| the victor OF Aliws. Havelock served for eight
years IN England, Scotland, and Ireland and hs g
Ing at length exchanged into the 18th light infant
eaaoa,hed Tor India in 1S23. Next year tbs
burmese war broke out, and Hayelock was sppoiut-
ca adj jutant- general and was nre
sent at the actions of Napadee, Patapagob and
rsghan. At the close Of the war he was associated
| with captain Lumsden and Dr. Knox on a mission
| to the court of Ava, and had an andienca nf ,ba
| 'uoIoen Root" when the treaty of Yapdaboo ua =
| signed In 1877 he published the "Uistery of the
ava campaigns, aud in that year he was appoint
ed adJutant of the military depot formed nj chin
surah by Lord Combermere The Cbinsnrab a.
tabIlshment having been broken up IIayelock re-
turned 10 his regiment. He subsequently visited
Calcutta, and having passed in the lap Bguages at
tno coIieGe, was appointed adjutant OF his CORPS
by Lord William Bentiuck. In 1885 he was mo-
| NOTED to a company, after having served twenty
three years as subaltern. An army was now
| tOiltCttu tue INVASION OF AngGaQistaD nd
liaVetock accompanied 1t on the staff of Sir Viii
| lou2bby Cotton. lie went through the first Aft.
ghan campaign, was present at the storminc of
| GhuZnee aud the occupation of Cabul, and the re-.
turned to India with Sir Willoughby Cotton. HAY
ing obtained leave to visit the Presidency, he pre-
| pared "Memoir OF the Afghan Campaign" which
was soon after printed in London. lie returned to
| the PuDJaub in charge of detachment, and was
placed on the staff of General Elphinstone as
| i'ersian interpreter. When the Eastern Ghilzies
| having risen, blockaded Cabul, Haveleck was
sent to join Sir Robert Sale, then marching back
to India, and was present at the forcing of Khoord
| Cabul Pass, at the action of Tezeen, and all the
other engagements of that force till it reached Je-
| laabad. In the final attack on Mahomed Akbar
in April 1872, which obliged that chief to raise the
| siege, Havelock commanded the right column, and
| defeated him before the other columns could
| come up. rOr this he was promoted to a breyet
| majority, and was made Companion of the Bath
He was then nominated Persipn Interpreter to
Gen. Pollock, and present at the action of Mo-
| moo htIl, and the second engagement at TeZeen.
lie then proceeded with Sir John MCaskills force
| into the kohistan, and had an important share in
the brilliant affair at Istalif. Next year he was
promoted TO regimental majority, and nominated
Ierslan interpreter to the commander chief Sir
| luSh tough. At the close Of 1913 he ACCOMPANIED
the army to GTalor, and was engaged in the hat.
| tie OF Maharajore. In lS4i he was promoted to
| the rank of lieutenant-colonel by brevet In 1915
| he proceeded with the army to meet the invasion
nl the Slkhs. and was actively engaged in the bat.
ties of Moodkee, .Ferczeshah and Sobron AT
| Moodkee he had two horses shot under him at So
| braon third horse was smitten down by a cannon
| hhOt, which passed through his saddle cloth On
| the conclusion of the Sutei campaimn he was an
| pointed deputy adjutant-general of the Queen
| troops at Bombay. The second Sikh war now
broke ont, and his elder brother, Colonel William
| IaVclock, was kllledat Ramnugger. His own reg
iment, the 53rd, having been ordered into the fell
he quilted his staff employment at bombay. in or
der 10 JOIN IT, and had proceeded far as Indore
when his further progress was countermanded
| and he returned to his post Twenty-Five wears of
Incessant and aborious service now began to tell
! on his constitution, and his medical adviser, in
1872 sent him 10 Europe two years for the restOr-
alton of his health. lie returned to Bombay in
1901, and was soon after made breyet colonel and
appointed, through the kindness of Lord Harding
by whose side he had fought in the three battles
of the Sutej. Quartermaster General, and then Adj
jutant General of the Queens troops ia India On
the dispatch of the expedition to Persia he was an
pointed to the second division, and commanded the
| troops at MOhammerah, the glory of which action
was, however, reserved for the naval force On the
| conclusion of peace he returned to Bombay and
| embarked in the Erin for Calcutta, in which vessel
he was wrecked, in 1851, off the coast of Ceylon-
| Five days after he obtained passage in the Fire
Queen, and OH reaching Calcutta, was Immediately
sent up to Allahabad brigader general. to COM
| mand the movable column.
| His subsequent career has been so recently the
subject of public admiration, that eed do no
| more than recapitnlate the leading Incidents
With the greater portion of the Gath and 18th reg
ments he first attacked the mutineers at Futty poI
on the 18th Of July, and on the 18th, at Aoung
and at Pandoo Nuddee; on the 10th, at Cawnpore
he had horse shot under him. and the enemy lost
% guns. Advancing from Cawnpore on the 2gth
| he captured Uonao, Busseerut Gunge, aud ~ guus
This position he was obliged to give up. but rttook
| il on the 9th of August, INJECTING great slaughter
On the 18th August he again defeated the mutneers
and on the 10th attacked them at Bithoor. Even
tually receiving reluforcenents under Sir james
Uutram, he entered Lucknow on the 25th of Sep
| tpmhpr and held his prOund th.ra mi tha
son was finally relieved by Sir Colin Campbell Oh
| The 18th Nov.
| SUNDERLAND, Tuesday Evening-The ne xs o f
General Havelock's death reached this his native
| town, (of which Bishop Wearmouth, forms the
! southern partJ this morning, and caused very
wide spread feeling OF sorrow. The minute bell of
the'parisk church was toled throughout the fore
| noon and the union jack was hoisted half mast
| high on the tower. proposal has already been
| publicly mooted for erecting, by subscription,
monument to the deceased here, on Building IIill
a picturesque eminence overlooking the public
park of the borough.
| The Marshal RndetZky-A Sketch
OF his Career.
Marshal Radetzky, who has played prominent
a part in the history of the Austrian Empire du-
ring the last seveDty-fve years, recently expired
at the advanced age of ninety-two He was look
ed upon in his native country with much the same
feeling the English viewed the late Duke of
yelling ton-with respect allied to enthusiasm.
His death took place on the 9th of January, af
ter an illness of a week, its immediate cause being
paralysis of the lungs.
Radetzky born at Trehnitz, in Bohemia, in
lIG6 His prediction for military adventures
early developed, and he commenced his military
career on the 1st of August 1871, a cadet in
| cavalry regiment Austria was at war with Tur
key and Lieut.. Radetzky first distinguished him.
self at the siege of Belgrade.
In 1898 Radetzky's regiment served against the
French, and i'll 1873, as Adiutant TO General Beau
lieu. who commanded the AustraAs in Italy, he
met Napoleon, then in his 9th year. on the field Of
battle. At the battle ofthe Trebbia, Radctzky had
a horse shot under him, aud from the GOODNESS aud
bravery he displayed on that occasion he was ga
Letted rs Lieutenant Colonel.
On the 10th of August, 1899, RsdetZky led the
Austrian attack in the battle of NOvi. The battle
terminated in the complete defeat Of the French.
In Baron Melass dispatches the name of Radetzky
is the most honorably mentioned. The result of
this campaign was TINT nearly the whole # upper
Italy fell into the hands Of the Austrians.
Napoleon returned from Egypt towards tho end
of 1898, and stood as First Consul at the heal of
the French Republic. Napoleon Joined the army
in Italy in person in May. On the 5th of June,
$500 the sanguinarv battle of Marengo was
fought. Napoleons star was again IN the ascen-
dant.
We will rapidly pass over the next ten years of
Radetzky's career After the peace cf Luneve
1s0l--lS05) he enjoyed temporary repose. On the
renewal of hostilites In 1904, agaia find Radetz-
Ky In active service. The battle of Apsterltz led
TO negotiations; on the 10Th of December peace
was concluded at Presburg, and Radet2ky, with
the rank of Brigadier, enjoyed few years repose
at Vienna.
IIostilities were renewed in 1909, and Radetzky
was appointed to the command of the drdRt g0rtie
of the 5th corpse d'armee Prussia was Inundated
at Jena and friedlsnd, aud shortly afterwards Ma
poleon dated his dispatches from the Palace of
Schonbrunn. From the opening of the campaign
on the Danube until the memorable battle of AS
pera (2lst and I'D of May Radetzky was scarcely
a day without fighting the enemy. During this
campaign he was opposed by Napoleon, Davoust,
ondinot, Massena, Moitor, Lefebyre and Lannes.
Vienna capitulated on the 18th of May. Then
came the battle of Aspera. Six times was Aspera
tasen and retaken on that day, and on the night
between the 2lst aud I'D the sentinels of the hos
tle armies were In sight of each other. On the
I'd Napoleon beat retreat. This the first
time ne mad been beaten in open field, and the SEN
sation was immense throughout Germany. Ra-