The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-01
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quarterback Of his own flagship in
Portsmouth harbor
1t was not by cOurtmartial, but by
the senate of Italy, constituted as a
nigh court of justice for his trial, that
Admiral PerSanO, who commanded the
Italian fleet at the battle of LISA. in
the war of 1866, was sentenced to be
degraded from the rank OF admiral and
TO be dismissed from the naval service
IN disgrace. II may be remembered
that at the battle of Lisa the lightly
armored Austrian squadron of old
wooden ships, under Admiral Tegethof
the Austrian Farragut-ignomini
~ defeated the superbly armed italian
ironclad fleet. steaming straight at it
and ramming the italian armored
ships. the impact sinking the latter in
almost every instance.
1t is only fair to add that among
foreign naval men, free from pdejudice
against the unfortunate admiral. there
has always prevailed an impression
that he was badly treated and used as
a ScapegOat.
Relationship Saves Prince George.
1t may be recalled that the much
Wanted Greek fleet, and in particu-
lar the Hellenic torpedo squadron, was
rendered incapable of accomplishing
anything during the war with Tur-
key, ten years ago, for precisely SINH
lar reasons. due to negligence and cor
ruption in the naval arsenais of the
Greeks, and there is no doubt that the
commander of the torpedo squadron.
Prince George, would have been made
a scapegoat by the government and by
the Greek navy, and probably have
been cOurtmartialed, had he not been
the son of a king.
Admiral de Vifleneux,a u-l,iIa no aC
caped with his life, was cOurtmartialed
and diSgraced by orders of the first
Napoleon for allowing himself to be
defeated at the battle of Trafalgar. He
too. was charged most unjustly with
personal cowardice, although his worst
fault was a lack of judgment and of
strategy.
Admiral Who Was Hanged.
Les fortunate was the Neapolitan adj
miral, Prince Carraciolo. who was
ceurt-martialed in 1905 and condemned
to death on charges of cowardice.
treachery and disobedience. He was not
shot, but hanged from the yardarrn of
his own flagship. and two days later
almost scared King Ferdinand into a
fit by suddenly appearing floating in a
perpendicular position, with his body
half out of the water, just under the
galley windows of the great man-of-
war on which the Neapolitan royal
family had taken up their abode for
reasons of safety. The prince had been
Compliant man, and the weights at
tached to his feet after his execution 10
sink the body had proved inadequate
for that purpose and merely sufficient
to make him float in an upright posi-
ton.
Subsequent inquiry brought to light
the fact that the Inflated prince had
been the victim of most cruel injustice
and of false testimony. and that if he
had been condemned Off-hand without
being given a fair trial it was because
ii was known that he was an object of
particular aversion to Lord Nelson,
whose mind had been poisoned against
him by the infamous Emma, Lady
Hamilton. whose influence as English
ambassadors with the reigning family
Of Naples he had publicly condemned.
Probably the most notable court-mar-
tial of general officers in the army
whose grade corresponds to that of adj
miraI in the navy during the last 100
years have been those of Marshal Ba-
zaine after the war of 1870 and of Mar
shall Ney at the close of the Napolenic
wars in the second decade of the nine
teenth century.
Ney, who had been placed by King
Louis XVIII in command of the troops
dispatched TO oppose the return of the
emperor from Elba, had been unable
TO resist the sentiments of old-time af-
lection and gratitude toward his for
mer master, and had deserted to Napo-
leon. Captured after the battle of Wa
terloo he was tried by court-martial
and sentenced to be shot. The sentence
is understood to have been carried out,
but there are many who believe the
story that, with the conniVance of GER
tain English officers, he managed to ef-
feet his escape to this country and sur
vived for many years his alleged ex-
ecution.