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THE PRUSSIAN COMMANDER lïT-CHIEF.

THE great strategist of Ihe Bohemian campaign in 1863 Count Moltlce, is now in his 70l.li year ; but in energy and power of mind ho is unimpaired by ago. lu appearance tall, of martial bearing,

ho gives ooo the impression of a man | boru to command. If England had lier i " Iron Duke " Moltko may be called ' the " Iron Count " of Germany. He is remarkably firm, and his grave

countenance is but tho exponent of his ¡ character. Born on the 2lHb October, 1801), in Mecklenburg, be spent tbe first twelve years of his life in Holstein, when ho was removed with his elder brother to the Academy of Cadets in Copenhagen. In 1822 ho enlered the .Prussian service as 2nd Lieutenant of tho Gib Infantry Regiment, was soon after promoted to the Kriegs-schulo in Berlin, and (¡itj.í attached to a Com- mission of Topographical Survey in Silesia and Posen, whore his services secured him a post in the goneral staff. As captain ÛC "^d« » military tour of Turkey in 1835 39, trii'di he described

at tho time in a series of moïî interest-

ing letters, and which enabled Ima Î0 ' publish an historical work of great merit " The Russo-Turkish Campaign in 1828-29, with plans of Varna, Schumla, Silistria, and other Turkish fortresses." Promoted to major, with the Command of the 4th Corps d'Armée, he married Miss Von Burt, a lady of Holstein ; and

in 1815 he was nominated Personal Adjutant of Prince Henry of Prussia in Home, where he spent his leisure in studying the town and its environs. His " Contourni di Boma " were en- graved, and highly appreciated. In 1848 ho was transferred to Madgeburg as chief of the staff of the 4th Corps d'Armée, obtained his Colonelcy in 1851, his Major-Generalship in 185G, and tho rank of Lielenaut-Gcneral in 1S59. As Personal Adjutant of the Crown Prince of Prussia he attended

upon his Royal Highness at Batmoral, in 1857, and was present at the betrothal of tho Princess

Royal, accompanied the Prince to his wedding in 1858, and also to the funeral of the Prince Consort in 1861. As chief of the Goneral Staff of the Army he was entrusted with tho impor- tant dnty of designing a goneral system of defence of the whole coast line of Germany. In the Danish war Moltko projected a plan for landing on Furten, but Austrian jealousy prevented its being carried out. In his report on the Italian campaign in 1859, we read this

significant sentence :-" The shrewd Emperor Napoleon certainly did not overlook tho hazards of his enterprise. But he could trust his1 army, he acted rapidly, surprisingly, and powerfully, and he who thus acts secures the advan- tages which escape the irresolute." On this principle Count Moltke planned and executed his Bohemian Campaign. Ho had gained laurels ia following an aggressive policy ; he bas now the more difficult task assigned him of winning them while on the defensive,

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