Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — STORIES OF HISTORIC DOGS. [ARTICLE]

STORIES OF HISTORIC DOGS.

Four-Footed Soldiers Which Fought In Many Old World Wars. A French paperhas published a roll of honor of celebrated dogs which have distinguished themselves in war. This is not inappropriate, considering that the dog has been -pressed into military service. For instance, there was Bob, the mastiff of the Grenadier guards, which made the Crimean campaign with that gallant corps; and also Whitepaw, “Patto Blanche,” a brave French ally of Bob, that made the same campaign with the One Hundred arid Sixteenth of the line, and was wounded in defending the flag. Another, Moustache, was entered on the strength of his regiment as entitled to a grenadier's rations. The barber of his company had orders to clip and comb him once a week. This gallant animal received a bayonet thrust at Marengo and recovered a flag at Austerlitz. Marshal Lannes had Moustache decorated with a medal attached to his neck by a red ribbon. Corps do Garde, a Norval amongdogs, followed a soldier to Marongo, was wounded at Austerlitz and perished in the retreat from Russia. The Sixth of the guard had a military mastiff named Mlsere, which woro three white stripes sewn on his black hair. We have also to name Pompon, of the Forty-eighth Bedouins, the best sentry of the baggage train; Loutoutc, a Crimean heroine; Mlttratlli, killed at Inkerman by a shell; Mottibo, that saved his master in Russia, and was lost or lost himself, but found his way going from Moscow to Milan, his first dwelling place. Tho most remarkable, however, was the last, an English harrier named Mustapha, which went into action with his English comrades at Fontenoy and, wo are seriously told, “remained alone by a field piece of the gunner, his master, clapped the match to the touchhole of tho cannon und thus killed seventy soldiers," and it is further addod that Mustapha was presented m King Georgo 11.- and rewarded s’lth a pension allmcntam.