Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-29
MODERN SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE.
Men Who Have Served Under More
Than One Flag.

| Men Who Have Served Under More
| Than One Flag.
| From the Pail Mall Gazette
In the Transvaal today the soldier of for
tune is making his last stand. No other
| country in the world is likely to offer the
alien adventurer of the future the same po-
| sitions ard profit that have hitherto been
! the portion of Schiel. Won Albrecht and the
| other European mercenaries of Krugerdonl.
| decline of the soldier of fortune if we COM
! cline of the soldier of fortune, if we COM
pare his gains with the colossal harvests
| of his predecessors in history Perron. the
| wonderful FrenChman who commanded the
| Mahratta army, arrived in Hindustan a
| penniless petty officer from a man-o'-war,
| and in nine years had amassed between one
| and two millions sterling Even more rap
| id was the progress of Col. Hanney, who
| had to leave John Companys' service to
| avoid the bailiffs. He entered the service
| of the Newab Wazir of Dude in ITS, and
| left it after three years with a fortune
| of 900 900. Many other French and Eng
| llsh adventurers were nearly as lucky.
AT that time there was not the prejudice
| against these mercenary swords which the
military ethics of modern Europe have
| fostered. Few foreigners have risen to emf
nence in the English service, but large
numbers Of aliens were recruited for us in
the NapoleOnic wars. Besides the famous
Hessians there were the French Chasseurs
Britannique. three Swiss regiments. the
| Corsican Rangers. and the Greek Light
| Infantry. In the Crimean war German
| legion was recruited in Heligoland. but
| they never distinguished themselves on the
| field, and the precedent is not likely to be
| followed.
| In spite of the chilling effect of modern
| ideas, the soldiers, of fortune of the nine
tenth century form picturesque gallery
| heroes and rascals, Fenians and royalists,
| Poles, Englishmen and adventures of no
1 country. Some of them, like Lork Cochrane
! and Hobart Pasha, have established them
| selves on higher plane than the merce-
| nary can usually hope to occupy. The for
| mer's brilliant record with the English,
| Chilean, Brazilian and Greek navies in turn
| is probably unique, though Paul Jones may
be set down a bad second. The ex-ap-
| prentice Of Whtehaven collier, who was
| the most successful American naval officer
| in the war of independence, and held COM
| nand thereafter in the French. and then in
! the Russian navy, is not the heroic figure
| which modern eulogists in the United
| States like 20 picture, but he was a fine
| seaman and a gallant fighter. In fact, he
| was the typical soldier of fortune flor the
| accident that he fough- at sea does not rob
| him of his Place in that gallery.
| The revolutionary wars of the continent
| have naturally attracted many of these ad-
| venturers. Count Ilinski was a Pole, who
| fought the Russians in his native land, and
| when all was lost took service under
| Schamyl, Prince of CircaSsia. The Hun
! garian war of independence in 1913 next
I employed his desperate vaior, and at
| Temeswar he had three horses killed under
! him Finally he became colonel of a Turk
| ish CurasSier regiment and was known as
| Islander Beg. In the Hungarian revolt
| Cen Guyon, an Englishnian, was a famous
i figure, and at Tyrnau he held his ground
| until he had lost three-fOurths of his bat
| TALON and the village streets We're stream
| ing with blood. A less attractive person.
| atty is Gen CluSeret who served as a
! captain in the French army in Algeria
| then under Fremont, in the American civil
| war; was next a Fenian general and
| then war minister under the commune
| DOmbrowski, another general in the
! commune, and a far ADLER and Drawer man
! than the ex-Fenian, had fought in Poland
| and under Garibaldi. He was killed at the
| barbados in 1871. Among continental
| forces Of aliens one ought to mention the
| French foreign legion. which still includes
| the runaway aristocrats and broken
| men of half Europe. and the Irish brigade
| which fought for the pope in 1860 under
| command of Major Myles O'Reilly. M. P.
| An old soldier Of the Papal Zouaves. an
| other lrishman, is now Gen. Coppinger of
| the United States army. Garibaldi himself
| Is. of course, entitled to niche in this
gallery of fame, and his son Ricciotti has
| since his Italian campaigns fought for
| France in 1870 and for Greece In 1897 in
both bravely lighting for lost cause
| The new world offers us condottieri of a
! new type, like Walker the filibuster, who
! became dictator of Nicaragua and might
| have ruled Honduras but for a British man.
/ o'-war. Gen. Caroll-Teviss, who served in
| the Franco-PrusSian war and good MANY
! South American struggles, was Fenian
hero So was Capt. John McAfferty, who
! served in the Mexican war of 1855, and was
/ then an officer in the confederate army
He was in all the Fenian plots of 1867
and was twice tried here for treason felony.
| He was acquitted at one trial, and am
| nestled after the second a leniency which
| he repaid by renewed activity in the ranks
| of the Clan-na-Gael- He was said to be
| the real NO. L" behind the Phoenix Park
murders.
Egypt has employed many aliens Mu-
! Finger Bey was a Swiss who had been
an Italian, who, after serving interpre-
ter to the English army in the Crimea, be-
came Gordons lieutenant in the Soudan
and smashed the slave-hunters' revolt in
I Darfur. Loring Pasha was an American
soldier; LuptOn Bey, governor of the Bahr-
el-Gazel. who died in the Mahdrs dun
geons. an Englishman. Slatin and Emin
| were both Austrians.
| In more recent years we have had Gen.
| kOhnes. an eX-major in the German army,
who landed u cargo of Mannlicher rifles for
4 the Chilean congressionalists, drilled their
| troops and defeated Balmaceda- Gen Ro-
| maid McIver, a Scotsman who has served
under fourteen flags, from the confederate
10 the carlist, is another roaming Brton.
like kaid Maclean, an ex-leutenant In our
service. who is now commander of the
army of the Sultan of Morocco. Gen. Dig
| by Willoughby, who commanded Gin blue
and silver the Hova army, has since
fought for the Chartered Company in Rho
desia, but has now turned to the arts OF
peace.