Year: 1859

Heroes magenta


From the New York Times and Herald we condense
the following:


MARSHAL M'MAHoN, DUKE OF MAGENTA.


1t would appear that this distinguished officer, who
was in command of the second corps of the army Of the
Alps has won the chief honor of the battle of Magenta
for we ind that the Emperor has bestowed upon him In
the field of fame the baton of Marshal of France and
the title of Duke of Magenta-ust the first Napo-
leon sixty years ago, and the same field acknowl
edged the skill and ntrepidty of Marshal Augereau by
bestowing on him the title of Duke of Castigione.-
General Mcmahon, the Count, was recalled from the
commandin-chief of the French troops of Africa to
take part in the Italian campaign, where he has already
won his baton and dukedom. AS his name imports, he
OF Irish extraction and has well upheld the character
for dash and ntrepiy which soldiers of that race have
for themselves in the military service of every coun
try in the world. Since 1841, when he commanded q
battalion of chasseurs General Mcmahon has been al
most constantly in the field. The soldiers love him, be-
eve in him, and will follow him with confidence across
the line of the enemy through which he will pierce with
his sword uplfted, smiling eye, the coohess Of lade
and the spirit of brave soldier He it who plant
ed the French colors Mameon on that terrible day
when Sebastopol fell.


GENERAL EspINAssE.


Esprit Charles Marie .Espinasse, who is among the
killed, was graduate of the school of ST. Cr Born
in the village of Saissac, April 2, 1885, during the
Hundred Days" He left the school in 1885, and won
his first steps in Algeria. AS Chief de Battalion he
fought in 1845 at the head of the Zouaves and in 1S49
commanded the Forty of the Line at the siege Of
Rome. He most active in suppressing the insur-
rectons of December, 1851 and devoted himself to the
cause of the President and of public ORDER Immediate
ly on the proclamation of the Empire, he became an
aidde of the Emperor. In the Crimea he fought
galanty by the side of the Sardnians at Tchernaya
and of the first to follow General Mcmahon in
to the Malakof When Paris was shocked and excited
by the Orsini affair in January, 1858, Gen. Espnasse
was made Minister of Public Safety in the place Of NJ
Bilault. Although this disappointment caused much
alarm and concern as invasion of the civil service by
military man, General Espinasse administered his Of
flee with commendabe moderation and when he made
way for more liberal system in the person of M. De-
langle, became Senator of the Empire.


MARSHAL FRANCOIS CERTAIN CANRoBERT


This distinguished officer, who is reported as having
been mortay wounded at the battle of Magenta in
command OF the centre corps OF the French army
When the war with Russia broke out Gen. Canrobert,
in March, took command of the first division of the
my of the East which rghtfuly decimated by choL
in the disastrous campaign of the Dobrutscha Sub
sequenty he played leading part in the campaign of
the Crmea, sustaining at the battle of the Ama the
heights with the Zouaves until Gen. Foray came up to
his support. Although badly wounded in the arm, he
remained the field until the close Of the day. Two
days after that victory Marshal st. Arnaud perceivng
his death approaching, resigned the chief command of
the allied armies into the hands of Gen. Canrober in
conformity with secret instructions received from the
Emperor, March II, 1854. Gen. Canrobert command
ed at Inkermann opened the lines before Sebasaapo
and proceeding rapidly toward the capture of the
city, when the refusal Jealous hesitation OF Lord Rag
Ian to cooperate heartily with his ally disgusted him
with his position and he suddenly resigned it into the
hands of General Pessier, gracefully resumng his sub
ordinate command of the first corps d'Grmee. Two
months afterwards he returned to France and there on
the 9th of May, 1856, he received simultaneously with
Generals Bosquet and Random the baton of marshal Of
France The position of Senator was an incident Of
this Office. He was born in 1909.


| GENERAL FoREY.


The battle of Montebeo the first fight in the Italian
campaign by the troops Of the Forey brigade
which formed part of the first division of the army,
der the command of Marshal paraguay d'Hilers. At
this battle Forey showed himself such brave and gal
liant officer that the Emperor, when he visited the field
embraced him and publicly thanked him for the victory
he had won. He has now, it would seem distinguished
himself as highly in the battle of Magenta; and it is
not matter of surprise that he has been promoted to
the command of the division in which he served. We
are told that General paraguay d'Hiers has been su-
perceded by him in command of the first corps OF the
army Gen. Forey almost all the general officers OF
the French army, distinguished himself in Africa where
he served for ten years Colonel of the twentysxh
regiment He commanded brigade in Paris on the
occasion of the coup de and was the head OF the col
umn of troops who escorted the members OF the Nation
al Assembly at the time OF their dissolution from the
place of meeting to the barracks of the Qua dOrsay
After the formation of the Army of the East he had the
command of the fourth division he landed at Pyrea,
was present at the battle of the Alma, and it was he
who in the morning OF the 9th November vigorously
repused the Russians who tried to penetrate into the
French trenches while the battle of Inkermann 60
ing on


THE AUSTRIAN ooMMANDER-IN-CHIEF


Baron Henry de hess, who commands the Austrian
army has grown old in the service of his country hav


ing seen more winters than perhaps any other officer or
soldier connected with either army. He was born in
Vienna in 1885, and consequently seventytwo years
old. He entered the army ensign in 1905, and
was for some time the general staff He was at the
battle of Wagram in 1909, when the Austrians were
defeated by Napoleon Bonaparte and which battle was
followed by the treaty of SchOnbrunn. He served all
through the continental war and received many foreign
decorations He gazeted to the rank OF colonel IN
1922 and next year placed at the head OF division
of the staff in Lombardy, having earned for himself the
reputation OF being one of the best officers in the Aus
trian army He was created field marshal in 18A2 and
continued attached to the Austrian army in Italy.
From June, 1849, to July, 1850, he was Secretary
of War, and during the years 1856 and 1856 ne was
employed as negotator at the Court Of Russia. His
mission related to the eastern question: which he cOnu
sed as much as he was able for the benefit OF Austria


He obtained as reward for this service the command
of the fifth corps doree in Italy of the Austrian army
and has the merit of being the artizan of his own militia


ry fortune. He is looked upon good strategist-
Radetzky, whose principal adviser he was for long
tme held him in the greatest esteem, and ne shared In
the greater part of the old marshals successes.


The FEELING IN GERMANY.--A Paris correspondent
writing on the LIST inst, says:


By private letters which reach daily, we learn that
the excitement on the Rhine is still so great to pre-
vent all thought of the usual French emigration to the
Faux this year. gentleman just returned from Baden
declares that two or three French inmates of the hotel
where he was staying bad been compelled to give up din
ing at the table dhote in consequence of the pointed