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| THE BATTLE OF MAGENTA-lTS HEROES
| AND IT'S VICTIMS.
! Among the iustrious victims of the late impor-
tant battle in Lombardy, the name of the Marshal
commanding the third corps d'armee of the allied
army deserves signal notice.
MARSHAL CANRoDERT.
Francois Certain Canrobert was native of the
ancient and warlike province of Brittany where he
was born of good old family in 1909. Educated
at the military school of St. Cyr, he left that nsti-
tuticn with the rank of sub-Leutenant of one of
the regiments of the line and in 1892 advanced
| to Lieutenancy. In 1885 he embarked for Ag
ria where he was present at all the important &C
lions of the war, earning promotion to the grade
| of Captain At the siege of Constantine he lead
the assault at one of the breaches, by the side OF
Colonel Combes and so distinguished himself by
| by his gaantry. that his commanding officer, who
! fell mortally wounded in the action, recommended
him to Marshal Vallee, young man ''whose fu-
ture was assured" Decorated with the of
the Legion d'Honner, he returned to France in
1882 Returning in lS4l after short repose, to
Africa, he continued to serve with the highest
credit in the protracted wars and instructions by
| which the army of France has been educated In
lS49, as Colonel of the Third Zouayes be was first
in the assault at Zaatcha, immortalized by the pen
Gil of Vernet and by his splendid courage and skill
obtained the rank of Commander of the Legion OF
| Honor.
Canrobert had just returned from Africa when
the coup detat of Dec. 2, 1851, took place. 1t was
understood, at the time, that in lending himself to
the support of Louis Napoleon he meant to secure
| some vantage from which, at a proper time, he
might against the President, and that vantage
he obtained in the appointment of Commander OF
| Paris under the new regime with promotion to the
rank of General of Brigade. But he conspicu
| Gus in REFRESHING the instructions of December
1851, and eventually gave himself to the new order
of things with devotion. In return for this he was
named General of Division in 1858. When the wal
with Russia broke out, Gen. Canrobert, in March
took command of the First Division of the Army Of
the East, which was so frightfully decimated by
cholera in the disastrous campaign of the DObruts
| cha. Subsequently he played leading part in the
campaign of the Crimea, sustaining at the battle
the Alma the first shock Of the Russian attack, and
storming the heights with the Zouaves, until Gen.
| Forey came up to his support Although badly
wounded in the arm, he remained on the field unit
the eiose of the day. Two days after that victory
Marshal ST. Armand. perceiving his death ap
preaching, resigned the chief command of the allied
armies into the hands of Gen. Canrobert, in con
formity with secret instructions received from the
| Emperor, March H. 1854.
| General Canrobert comm nded at Inkermann
opened the lines before Sebastopol. and was pro
ceedng rapidly toward the capture of the city
when the refusal or jealous hesitation of Lord Rag
Ian to cooperate heartily with his ally, Disguised
him with his position, and he suddenly resigned it
into the hands of General Pessier, gracefully re
Stunning his subordinate command of the first corps
d'drmee. Two months afterwards he returned ia
| France, and there on the 10th of May, 1856, he re-
ceived. simultaneously with Generals Bosquet and
Random, the baton of Marshal of France. The pc
siton of Senator an incident of this office. Al
| the outset OF the present war; Marshal Canrobert
was assigned the command ofthe Military Division
of Lyons, but when the threatening manifestations
| OF Germany made it necessary for the Emperor to
put the Duke de Malakoff in that position. Mar
shall Canrobert accepted the command of the third
u. Al
army which crossed the Ticino in pursuit of the
retreating Austrians, and fell mortally wounded al
the great battle and victory of Magenta
| GENERAL EsPINAsSE.
| Esprit Charles Marie Espinasse, like Canrobert
was graduate of the school of st. Cyr. Born in
the village of Sassac April 2, 1915, during the
I" Hundred Days" He left the school in 1888. and
won his first steps in Algeria: As Chefde Battalion,
he fought in l845 at the head of the Zouaves; and
| in lS49, commanded the Forty-second of the Line
at the siege of Rome. lie most active in sup
pressing the instructions of December, 1851, and
devoted himself to the cause of the President and
of public order. Immediately on the proclamation
OF the Empire, he became an oid-de-camp of the
Emperor. In the Crmea, he fought gallantly by the
side of the Sardnians at Tchernaya and was one oil
! the first to follow General Mcmahon into the Mala-
kOh. When Paris was shocked and excited by the
Orsni affair in January, 1858, General Espnasse
made Minister of Public Safety in the place of
M. Billaut. Although this disappointment caused
much alarm and concern as an invasion of the civil
"
ministered his Office with commendable modera-
| ton (; and when he made way for more liberal
system in the person of M. Delangle, became a
Senator of the Empire. He served in Italy
General of Division in the second corps d'a1mee
under the orders of General, Marshal Nc
\ Mahon.
| Marie Edme- Patrick Maurice de Mac-Mahon is
a scion of one of those illustrious Irish families
which followed the Stuarts into exile two centuries
ago, and have since given so many brave and bril-
liant names to the history of France, Austria and
Spain. The gaantry of the Sarshelds and the
| Tyrconnels has not faded out of this ancient blood
with the lapse of time and the valor of the Irish
Brigade which broke the English squares at Fonte-
noy lives in the stormer of the Malakotf and the
leader of the desperate battle at Magenta.
The father of Marshal Mcmahon was Peer Of
France under the Restoration, having been as loyal
| to the Bourbons as his ancestors had been to the
Stuarts; and a personal friend of Charles Y. Of
France. The son, born in 1907, entered that nurs-
cry OF heroes, the school of st. Cyr, in 1925 and
fought in Algiers with the first French army o.
INVASION Returning to France in the suite Of
General Achard, he marched with the Due dor
leans to the siege of Antwerp in 1881, and was one
of the officers who saved the pompous Belgian
lion erected the field of Waterloo from the rage
OF the French infantry 5y few good -natured wit
ticisms at the expense Of that rather ridiculous
beast.
Action being the element of men like MacMahon
he is found again in Algiers in 1887 prominent il
the assault on Constantine. He afterwards com
Foreign Legion, and in lS45, General of Brigade
governed the Province of Oran. July &c. 1852, he
became general of division; and in 1855 was de
spatched to succeed General Canrobert at Sebasto
pol. On the Sth of September of that year the
perilous honor of leading the stormng party agains
the Malakof was confided to him, and in an instant
he found himself famous. He was almost the first
man to enter the Russian works, and swearing tc
stay there, 'living dead" rallied his troops SC
constantly and ardently to the Defence that all the
obstinate gallantry of the Russian battalions wa:
| wasted upon the attack. He commanded in Italy
| the Second Division, and has now the distnc-
ton, unparalleled, believe, in history, of receiving
on one battlefield his ducal coronet and his bator
| of Marshal of France Our Irish fellow-citizens
will doubtless take small share of the glory Of
Magenta to themselves in virtue of the new Dukes
share in the action, and they have certainly reason
| to be proud of their kinsman.
| From the NeW Fork Herdld
GENERAL FoREY.
| The battle of Montebello, the first fight in the
Italian campaign was won by the troops of the
Forey brigade, which formed part of the first divi
sion of the army, under the command of Marshal
paraguay dHilliers. At this battle Forey showed
himself such brave and gallant officer that the
| Emperor, when he visited the field, embraced him
and publicly thanked him for the victory he had
won. He has now, it would seem, distinguished
himself as highly in the battle of Magenta; and il
is not matter of surprise that he has been pro-
NOTED to the command of the division in which he
| served We told that Gen. paraguay dHillier.
has been superseded by him in command of the first
corps of the army. General Forey, as almost al
the general officers of the French army distinguish