Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-18
THE GAZETTE.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY Is. 1859.
TIE MEN OF THE TIME

We crnden-e the following sketches OF some
Of the leading men in the impending suug-
gle, from various sources
Victor Emanuel H. King Of Sardinia, which
country bears almost the same relation 10 the
rending European war that Turkey did to
the Crmean, Is one of the prominent actors
IN the great drama now being enacted on the
Eastern hemisphere. The House of Savoy,
OF which he is the head, descends from the old
Counts Of Sardinia.
in command Of the Sandman army ready 10
cooperate with Louis Napoleon against Aus
tra ut q moments notice. General hlam"ra
is an old and tried soldier When the Cri-
mean war broke out, and SARDINIA joined
the Western Powers against Russia, and the
Sandman contingent was raised, he was
placed in command, went to the Crimea,
and behaved in the noblest manner. max
ing himself famous as one Of the generals
Of Europe.
The Marquis D'Azeglio has figured in the
quarrel very prominently. He is the Sardin-
ian ambassador, and of one of the oldest iaml-
lies in Piedmont, and one OF considerable
distinction at the preaent time.
The firm stand taken by Count Cavour, the
Sandman prime minister, to compel the ad
mission of the Sandman Government to a
representation in the proposed European
Peace Congress. and to enforce recognition
of the importance of that Power among the
great nations of Europe, has marked him a.
prominent man in view of the impending war,
and of the part in it which ia necessarily as
signed to him. He was born in Turin. August
10, 1910, and belongs to an ancient and veal
thy family of Piedmont.
The name of Joseph Mary Garibaldi-he
who now commands the ten thousand Italian
volunteers in defence of Sardinia against Aus.
trials suggestive of liberty, and by many
Of his countrymen he is revered, almost as a
Washington.
On Louis Napoleon--alternately the Prince,
the outcast, the fugitive, the prisoner, the
pamphleteer and the Emperor-the eyes OF
the world are now fixed, as upon an arbiter
of the destinies of Europe.
Francois Certain Canrobert, Marshal of
France, Senator, was born in the year 1909
and belongs ~ an honorable family of Bre-
tagne.
paraguay d'IIilliers, it is announced by
the Niagara will command one ofthe divisions
Of the French army to cooperate with Sar-
Ulnld, anu Is therefore VI HUE III lHc Pi'oeh.
crisis He was in l849 military governor OF
Rome and communicating of the French
army in Italy, though formerly he had been
French prisoner of war in Dorchester castle.
and Mt time when no parole was granted
to any prisoner. whatever might be his rank.
Count Jacques Louis Cesar Alexander
Random, Marshal of France, formerly Minis
ter and Senator-now named az Major Gen
eral on the Piedmontese frontier-was born
at Grenoble on the 25th Of March, 1875.
Francis Joseph, Emperor Of Austria. who
has been so theoretically preparing for war,
in spite of his youth and inexperience, and OF
the Napoleon with whom he has to deal, in
connection with the infuriated liberals of
Italy, has undoubtedly been actuated by a
determined ambition. He was born in Au-
gust, 1880 and is consequently but nearly
twenty-nine years of age. He is son of the
Archduke Francis Joseph. His titles, besides
that of Emperor of Austria, are King of Hun
gary and Bohemia, King of Lombardy and
Venice, Archduke of Austria, and other minor
fitleS