The Portland daily press., 1900-01-11
UNDER TWO FLAGS OR MORE.
sren who Have ssrve-i I'm War for Va
rious Causes.
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fortune is mskinR his last stand. Nc
ether country In the world is likely Il
offer the allen adventurer Of the future
the same positions and profit thst have
hitherto been the portion Of Sohisl, Won
Albrecht and the other European mercsn.
| aries of krugerdom. Ibis war then,
may bs said 10 conplsts the decline OF
the soldier OF fortune, II we compare his
gains with the colossal haTyests Of hil
pr decsssors In history. Perron, tbs
wonder al BIenchmsn who commanded
the Mahratta army, arrived In Hindustan
a pennilsss petty officer from q mab-o'-
war. and In nine years has amassed be-
tween one ard ten millions Of sterling.
4 ven more rapid was the progress Of Col.
Hanney, who had to leave John Com
pauy's" servics to avoid the baillffs. He
entered the service Of the Newab wszir
Of Dude, In 1T1S, and left IL after three
years with q fortune Of ea0o.ooo Many
ct her French and English adventurers
were nearly ms lucky.
At that time there was not the prsiu-
dice against these mercensry swords
which the military ethics Of modern Eur
ops have fostered. Few foreigners have
risen to eminsnoe In the English service,
but large numbers of aliens were re-
oruitsd for us In the NApolsonio wars.
b ,sides the famous Hssslans there were
the French Chasssurs Britannique. three
Swiss regiments, the Corsioan Rangers
and the Greek Light Infantry. In the
Crimean war a German legion was re-
oruited In H~llgoland, but they never dis
tinguished themssiveB on the field, and
ths precedent 10 not likely 10 be followed
In spite OF the chilling eject Of modern
Ideas the soldiers of fortune Of the nine
teenth century form a picturesque gal
lery-heroes and rasoais, Fenians and
Roy alists, Poles, Englishmsn and adven-
turers of no country. Some OF them. like
Lord Cochrans ard Hobart Pasha. have
established themselves on a higher plans
than the mercenary oan usually hope to
occupy. The formers brilliant record
with the English, Chilian. Brazilian
unique, though Paul Jones may bs sat
down a. q bad second, The ex-apprentice
OF u Whitehaven collier, who was the
most saccsssful Am srican naval officer 10
the War Of Independence, and held COM
mand thereafter in ths French, and then
In tx Russian navy, Is not the heroic
figure which modern eulogists IN the
United Statss like to picture, but be was
a tine seaman and . gallant fighter. In
fact, he was the ypical soldier of fortune
(for the accident that hs fought at sea
does not rob him Of his place In that gal
lery).
Tns revolutionary wars OF the oonti-
nent have naturally attracted many OF
these ad dventurers. Count ninski was q
Pole, who fought the Russians 10 his na.
tive land. and when all was lost took ser
vice under Sohamyl, Prince OF Circassia.
The Hungarian War Of Independence In
1s4s next employed his desperate vAlor.
and at Tsmes var he had three horses
killed under him. Finally, he became
colonel Of Turkish cuirassier regiment.
and was known as Islander Bey. In
the Hungarian revolt 6sn. Guyon. an
Epsli sh man, was q famous hsure and ct
Try rnau he held his ground until be had
village streets wers streaming with
blood. A less attractive personality Is
Gen. Cluseres, who served as captain
in the French army In Algeria. then
under Fremont In the Americ,n civil
War, was next Feninn General" and
then War Minister under the Communs.
Dom browski, and q far abler and braver
man than the ex- Fenian. had fought In
Poland and under Garibaldi He was
killed at the barrioades In 1871 Among
continental forces Of aliens one ought to
mention the French Foreign Legion,
which still includes the runaway aristo-
orats and broken men Of half Europe.
and the Irish brigade which fought for
the Pope In 1850, under com mand Of Ma
jor Myles o. Reilly, III. r. An old soldier
OF the Papal Zouaves. another Irishma
is now Gen. CoppinRer OF tbs United
States army. Gnribaidi himself, is Of
oourse, entitied to niche in this gallery
his Italian campaigns fought for France
In 1870. and for Greece In 1877, In both
bravely lighting for q lost causs.
The New World Offers us condottieri OF
new type, like Walker, the hlibuster.
who became dictator of Nicaragua and
might have ruled Honduras but for
British man-o'-war. Gen. CARROLL Tsviss,
who served In tine Franco Prussisn war
and a good many South American
struggles, was Fenian hero So was
Capt. John MoAfferty, who served In the
Mexican War Of 1856, and WAS then an
officer in the Confederate army. He was
In all the Fenian plots Of 1867. and was
twicetrled here for treason and felony. He
was acquitted at one trial and amnestied
after the second, lenienoy which he re-
paid by renewed activity in the ranks OF
the Clan-na-dsel. He was said to be the
real "No. /" behind the Phoenix Park
murders.
Eeypt has employed many aliens
Muzinger Bey was q Swiss, who had
heen British Consul at MassowA; Gsssi
Pasha, an Italian, who, after serving as
interpreter to the English army In the
Crimea, became Gordon's lieutenant In
the Soudnp, and smashed the slave
hunters revolt In Dariur. Loriog PAsha
was an American soldier; Lupton Beg.
Governor OF Bahr-el-GaEel. who died In
the Nahdi's dungeons, an EnglishmAn.
Slatiu and Emin were both Austrians.
In more recent years We have had den.
Kohnes. an sx.major in the German
army, who landed a cargo OF Msnnlioher
rides for the Chilian Congressionalists,
drilled their troops and defeated Balma-
oeda. Gen. Ronald MeIver, Scots uan,
who has served under irteen nags,
from the Confederate to the Carlist, Is
another roaming Briton, liks Kald Mac.
lean, an ex-l sutenant In our service,
who Is now commander OF the army OF
the Sultan OF Morocco. Gen. Digoy VIII
loughby. who comm anded I'm blue and
silTer) the Hosa army. has since fought
for the Chart red Company In Rhodss.a
but has now turned to the arts Of peace.