OBITUARY.
We take from “ Men of the Time ” the following particulars respecting General La Marmora, whose death is announced in our cable messages ; Marquis Alfonso Ferraro De La Marmora, born November 17, 1804, entered the Military Academy in 1816, and left it in 1823, as lieutenant of artillery. His gallantry in several affairs during the war of independence, especially on the heights of Pastringo, when, by a happy diversion in the rear of the Austrian array, he enabled the Piedmontese to reform and dislodge the enemy, gained for him the rank of major. His firmness in the midst of a popular agitation, which threatened to imperil the person of Charles-Albert, at Milan, caused La Marmora to be appointed General of Brigade in 1848, and in 1849 he was appointed to the command of a corps de reserve. Having tried an intervention in Tuscany, he received orders to co-operate with the Sardinian army, which had passed the Ticino; but being at a distance from the theatre of war, he did not arrive in time, and the battle of Novara was lost. Victor Emanuel made him Minister of War and Lient.-General in 1849, and he undertook to reorganise the Sardinian army, in spite of the clamor which rose on all sides against him. In 1855 he took command of the division sent to co-operate with France and England in the Crimea,, materially aided the French in the defeat of the Russians on the Tohernaya, and at the close of the war he received the Order of the Bath and the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and again entered the Ministry of Cavour as Minister of War. In 1861 he succeeded General Ciaidini as Commander-in-Chief of the troops of the King of Italy, in ths autumn of 1864 was chosen Premier, resigned in December, 1865, and was soon after iucluced to form a new Ministry. He took part in the campaign against Austria in -1866, but met with a severe reverse at Custozza (June 24), and incurred great unpopularity among his countrymen. Since then he has been employed in several diplomatic missions.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5240, 9 January 1878, Page 3
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351OBITUARY. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5240, 9 January 1878, Page 3
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