Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — FRANCE’S TACTICIAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRANCE’S TACTICIAN.

Ttie General Whom Marshal Canrabert Tiilnko Fit to Rank w.th Moltke. Marshal Canrobert, on being interviewed at the time of Count von Moltke’s death, remarked: “If the Germans have had Moltke, we have De Miribel.” The artillery officer of whom the veteran French Marshal has so high an opinion is at present chief of the general staff of the French army. Hewa9

born on the 14th of September, 183 L, at Montbonnot (Isere), and, after passing through the Ecole Polytechnique, entered the army in November, 1851, attaining his present rank on the 6th of May, 1890. Gen. de Miribel’s campaigns comprise the Crimea (1854-56), Italy ,1859), Mexico (1862-65) and the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71). He also fought against the commune in 1871. Gen. de Miribel was shot through both hands at the battle of Solferino, June 24, 1859, and in the head at the siege of Puebla, March 29. 1863.

GEN. DE MIRIBEL