The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-07
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE.
Men Who Have Served Under More
Than Gee Flag In This Country.

men VINO nave served U0der more
Than Gee Flag In This Country
PaH Mall Gazette)
In the Transvaal today the soldier of
fortune is making his last stand. No
other country in the world is likely to
/ offer the alien adventurer of the future
the same positions and profit that have
/ hitherto been the portion of Schiel Won
/ Albrecht and the other European mer-
cenaries of Krugerdom. And in this
very fact We may see the decline of the
soldier of fortune if we compare his
/ gains with the colossal ~harVests of his
/ predecessors in history. Perron, the
wonderful Frenchman who commanded
/ the Mahratta army. arrived in Hindu
/ stan penniless petty officer from a
man-O'-war, and in nine years had
amassed between 81, 000. 900 and e2O00,-
/ 600 sterling. Even more rapid was the
progress Of Colonel Hannay, who had
/ to leave John COmpanyS'' service TO
avoid the bailiffs. He entered the ser
/ vice of the nawab wazir of Dude in
/ 1776. and left it after three years with
7 a fortune of e300,O00. Many other
I French and English Adventures were
! nearly as lucky
At that time there We're not the preju-
! dice against these mercenary swords
which the military ethics of modern
/ Europe have fOstered Few foreigners
have risen to eminence in the English
/ service, but large numbers of aliens
were recruited for us in the Napole-
Onic wars. Besides the famous Hes
! SLAMS, there were the French Chasy
seurs Britinnique, three Swiss regi-
ments the COrsigan rangers and the
I Crook liphf iufoT1rTrr rEar (Tv-fr
war a German legion was recruited
| in Heligoland, but they never Gistin-
| guished themselves on the field and
/ the precedent is not likely to be fol-
/ lowed.
! In spite of the chilling effect of mod
/ ern ideas the soldiers Of fortune of the
nineteenth century form a picturesque
/ gallery-heroes and rascals, Fenians
/ and rOyalists, Poles, EugIishmen and
/ adventures Of no country. Some of
them, like Lord COchrane and Hobart
Pasha, have established themselves on
/ a higher plane than the nercenary can
usually hope to occupy. The formers
! brilliant record with the English, Chill
/ ian, Brazilian and Greek navies in
/ turn is probably unique, though Paul
I Jones may be sem down as a bad sec
ond. the ex-apprentice of a White
! haven collier, who was the most sue
cessful American naval officer in the
! war of independence, and held COM
mand thereafter in the French. and
then in the Russian navy, is not the
1 heroic figure which modern eulogists
in the United States like to picture.
but he was a fine seaman and a gallant
fighter. In fact, he was the typical
soldier of fortune (fOr the accident that
he fought at sea does not rob him of
1 his place in that gallery.
The revolutionary wars Of the CONT
nent have naturally attracted many of
these adventures. Count Ilinski was a
/ Pole who fought the Russians in his
native land. and when all was lost took
service under Schamyl, Prince Of Cir
cassia. The Hungarian war of indie
! pendence in 1848 next employed his
desperate valOr, and at Temeswar he
had three horses killed under him.
/ Finally. he became colonel Of a Turkish
euirassier regiment, and was known as
Islander Bey. In TIE Hungarian re-
volt General GUyOn, an Englishman,
was a famous figure, and at Tyrnau he
held his ground until he had lost three
fOuTths of his battalion and the village
streets were streaming with blood.
less attractive personality is General
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 them
war minister under the commune. Dom
browski, another general in the COM
mune, and a far ADLER and Drawer man
than the ex-Fenian, had fought in Po-
land and under General Garibaldi He
was killed at the barbados in 1871.
Among the continental forces of aliens
one ought to mention the French For
eign 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
the command of Major Myles O'Reilly,
NJ. P An old soldier Of the papal zou-
ayes. another ITisbman. is now General
CopDinger of the United States army
Garibaldi is, of course. himself entitled
to a niche in this gallery of fame. and
his son, Ricciotti. has. since his Ital-
ian campaigns. fought for France in
1870 and for Greece in 1897. in both
bravely fighting for a lost cause.
The new world offers US eOndOttieri
of a new type. like Walker the. fill
buster, who became dictator of Mica
ragua and might have ruled Honduras
but for a British man-c'-war. General
CarOll-Teviss. who served in the
Franco russian war and g good many
South American struggles, was a. Fee
MAN hero. So was Captain John McAf-
feTty, 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 1861 and was twice
tried here for treaSOn-felOny. He was
acquitted at one trial. and amnestied
after the second, a Ieniency which h.
repaid by renewed activity in the ranks
Of the Clan-na-Gael He was said to
be the real mo. I" behind the Phoenix
park murders.
E-pvnt has emD1oved MANY aliens
Muzinger Be- was a Swiss, who had
been British consul at MaSsOwah; Cess
Pasha, an Italian who, after serving as
interpreter to the English army in the
Crimea. became Gordon's lieutenant in
the Soudan, and smashed the slave
hunters revolt in Darfur LOriRg Pssha
was an American soldier; Lupton Bey,
governor of the Bahr-el-Gazel who
died in the mahdis dungeons, an Eng=