Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-31

tapool. He has the medal with fosr
clasps, G. b., Commander of the Legion
| of Honor, Fourth Glass of the Modiidie
and Turkish medal. He held the samo
appointment IN the Indian mutiny. and
saw the hard fighting near Cawnpore
and was present at the action Of Pandoo
Nuddee on the Goth OF November. He
vas present at the defeat of the Gwalior
Contingent on the 9th OF December
1857. He was employed on Special
servic against the northwest frontier
tribes in the Afghan Sitana campaign
| of 1S63-64, and WIS present at the
storming of Laloo, capture of Umbey.
lab and the destruction of Mulkah. He
was director of artillery and stores from
1870 to 1873, he was governor of the
Woolwich Royal Military Academy
from 1875 TO 1880, and has been SIR.
veyor General Of Ordnance from 1880.
He has thus served III the principal
army supply departments of the war
office, and has had great experience in
all the details of the equipment of an
army.
Lieutenant General Willis, G. B..
who will command the First division
was born in 1882. He served with the
Seventy-seventh regiment during the
first part Of the war in the Crimea and
was appointed in 1875 deputy assistant
quartermaster general at the headquar-
tiers of the army there, and subse-
quently, assistant quartermaster gen
| eral of the Fourth division. He has
been at different times assistant quar-
| tprnl q Sfpr uarnrol ar Eihroltor
ant adjutant general at Malta, assistant
quartermaster general of the Southern
district, and has held q similar ap-
pointment at the Horse Guards. In
1878 he was appointed major general
in command of the Northern district.
His commission of lieutenant general
bears the date of 1880.
Major General his Royal Highness
Arthur Duke of Connaught, X. g., K.
t., K. p, G. c. NJ. G., was born May /.
1850; entered the Woolwich military
academy as cadet in 1866, became q
lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in
1869, lieutenant in the Rifle Bri.
gade in the same year and
a captain in 1871. His staff ser
vices are: Brigade major at Aldershot
in 1878, brigade ma or to the cavalry
brigadler at the same quarters in 1875,
IN the October of which year he was
appointed assistant adjutant general at
Gibraltar, which post he held until
April 1876. In 1880 he was made
general of brigade at Aldershot. Be-
sides holding other appointme nts the
duke is colonel in chief of the royal
rifle corps and personal aide-de-c camp
to the queen. His royal highness has
never before taken part in active ser.
vice, and, as We have previously an
nounced, he will now command the
guards brigade in the first division.
1t will be remembered that the duke
of Cambridge commanded the guards
in the Crimean war.
Colonel Goddepough, who commands
the royal artillery, entered the army in
1919, became brevet lieutenant col.
onel in 1866 and full colonel in 1881.
He served in India during the mutiny,
and was present at the action of Pan
doc Nuddee, the siege and capture of
Lucknow and the attack and capture
of Port Birwah, VIII ere he was severely
wounded.
BRITISH VICTORY.
ALEXANDRA, Aug. PA telegram
bias just been received here, announc-
| ing the capture by the British Of Tel
FL kiber, with 1000 prisoners.
DESERVING ARAB.
PORT SAID, Aug. 24.-Several more
of Arabs officers arrived at KantarS
from the Egyptian camp, and solicited
to make submission to the British.
BRITISH VIEW OF THE SUBJECT.
| CoNsTANTINoPLE, Aug. 34-Among
uneducated Mussulmen the sympathy
for Arab is undiminished, but among
those capable of distinguishing be
tween the political and sentimental as
poets of the question, there is dccid-
ed revulsion of feeling, and some of
those VINO formerly applauded Arab,
now condemn him as dangerous enc
my of the empire.