Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31
One of the Thoughtful Fighters.

One of the Thoughtful Fighters.
General Mirabel is the most distinguished
among the French scientific officers. He is
somewhat after the Moltke school. His
services during the siege of Paris were very
distinguished, and he was all through the
Crimean campaign and served in Mexico
and IN the Italian War Silent and
thoughtful, he does not present the dashing,
picturesque personality SO attractive to the
average onlooker, characteristic of such SOL
diers as Gallifet. Yet it must not be for
gotten that mer of MirabePs stamp consti-
tute, after all, the brains of an army.
In speaking of the French generals I
have reserved the name of Saussier for the
last because il the Franco German war he
was only colonel OF the line, but fought
with great bravery, especially at the battle
of Borny. During the height of the
Boulanger troubles Saussier. as Military
Governor of Paris, displayed unusual
sagacity and prevented Boulanger from
achieving coup d'etat. The Republican
Government did not forget this service and
Saussier is now Commander in Chief 1t is
understood that he would take supreme
command in case of war.
Leaders of Russia's Armies.
OF all the famous generals who COM
manded in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877
This is General Gourko, the hero of the
Shipka Pass He is the cavalry hero of
the Muscovite army and would take COM
mand in the field. In 1877, when the Rus
sian forces had barely crossed the Pruth,
Gourko, by most brilliant reconnaissance,
had reached the gates of Adrianople. He
took the city of Tymore with small de-
His accomplishment of the remarkable feat
of forcing his way through the Shipka Pass
amid the rigors of winter is one of the great
est military achievements on record.
Dash and daring are the leading charac-
teristics of Gourko, combined with a per-
sistency of purpose and an iron will. His
incumbency OF the Goyernorsh1p OF war
saw has not been quito acceptable to the
Poles, who have experienced under him
ruler of severity and stern suppression OF
all nationalist movements. General Gourko
WAS born in Lithuanla, the country OF
Tolstoi, in 1928.
For. Russia and Against England.
General Kourupatkine, the personal friend
and comrade of the great and lamented
Skobeloff, with whom he shared the hard
ships and dangers of the Russo Turkish
War and also in the Tekke-Turcoman cam
paign, will, in my opinion, make a greater
mark than any other Russian general when
the next tocsin of war is sounded. Like
Skobeloff he believes that England is the
hereditary foe of Russia, and he holds to the
Panslavistic warriors creed that Russian
domain should ever be extending. He is
prolific writer.
General Obrutscheff, the chief of the staff
of the Russian army, has the reputation Of
being an able tactician. He graduated un-
der Nepokoitchitsky, who was chief of staff
in the war of 1877 Nepokoitchitsky was re-
sponsible for some bad blunders in the lat
ter war, especially the failures around
Plevna, in which the Russians suffered
severely. Probably his protege, Obrutschef,
has profited by the blunders OF mis- master,
and learned how to avoid similar ones.
Austria Not Very Well on.
The land of Hapsburgs is lamentably de-
ficient in the possession of able Generals, or
rather of Generals with anything imposing
in the way of a record. Excepting the Arch
duke Albert, and perhaps one other officer,