Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — PRINCE IMPERIAL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRINCE IMPERIAL

A YOUTH WHO MIGHT HAVE BECOME NAPOLEON IV. Ell Brilliant Military Career at Woolwich, the West Point of England—Kager for Fame—llls Sad Death In Znluland. Africa. Died a Soldier. On June 10, 1879, the Prince Imperial, son of Napoleon lIL was killed by the savages in Zululand, Africa, and thus sadly ended a life full of promise. Princes are not always worthy of esteem, but the young man, who hoped yet to become Napoleon IV., was a brilliant exception. When his parents soon after the close of the Franco-Prussian war settled at Chiselhurst, England, the young prince, then in his 15th year, entered the Royal Academy of Woolwich to receivea scientific military education. In the United States West Point affords the same instruction to all cadets alike, those who are most successful passing into the scientific branches; but in England the cadets for the line are educated at Sandhurst, and the severer tuition of Woolwich is restricted to candidates for the engineer and artillery

branches. The prince took his chance with his comrades, both at work and play. At the end of his Woolwich course he passed seventh in a class of 35, and had he gone yito the English service he would have

been entitled to choose between the engineers and artillery. During his Woolwich career he won the love and respect of his comrades: his instructors spoke warmly of his modesty, conscientiousness, and uprightness, and pronounced him truthful and honorable in a high degree. After leaving Woolwich he lived mostly with his widowed mother, the Empress Eugenie, at Chiselhurst, but traveled on the continent occasionally, and mixed a good deal in London society. The attainment of his majority was made a great occasion by the imperialist adherents to testify their adherence. Tire Zulu Campaign. The brave, patriotic French prince tired of his inactive life in England

and thirsted for military renown. He doubtless thought that if he distinguished himself in war his chances for ruling France some day would be greatly improved. The war that England was in ’79 carrying oh against the Zulu tribes in South Africa gave him the desired opportunity. He obtained the necessary permission of the prime minister of Great Britain to proceed to South Africa and join the English forces. His bravery anrf desire to be in the midst of all lighting was soon re-

marked by the officers in command. On June 10 the Prince obtained permission to goon a sketching expedition—to draw up a map of the battle ground. Permission was granted him, as no danger from the enemy was anticipated, and he set out with a small escort consisting of Lieut. Carey, seven soldier? and a guide. The site of an intended camp having been planned by the Prince and Carey, the party ascended

an adjacent hill and spent an hour there in sketching the contours of the surrounding country. No Zulus were visible in the wide expanse surveyed from the hilltop. The party descended the hill and at Its foot rested a while and ate luncheon. About 3 o’clock the guide reported that he had seen entering the field of grain in their front. The Prince gave the successive orders, “Prepare to mount!” “Mount!” Next moment, according to the evidence, a volley of twenty or thirty bullets were fired into the party. Lieut Carey and five of the soldiers succeeded in mounting their horses and escaped uninjured. The Prince’s horse was maddened by the firing and the Prince could not succeed in getting into his saddle. As he grabbed the pommel of the saddle the girth gave way, the horse plunged ahead and the Prince was left alone. He rushed toward a clump of trees and shrubbery and was there overtaken by the Zulus, who killed him with their javelins. Afterward his body was found. He was lying on his back, naked, save for one sock. His right eye was destroyed by the stab of a javelin or spear. The surgeons agreed that this wound, which penetrated the brain, was the first and fatal wound, that the other wounds were inflicted on his dead body. Of these there were found many inflicted on his chest, arms and sides, besides a nick in the abdomen, which the Zulus invariably inflict on slain enemies as a protection against being haunted by their ghosts. The body of one of the troopers was found near him still more horribly mutilated. The prince's body was taken back to England and now reposes beside thatof his father, Napoleon 111.,, in the chapel at Chiselhurst. His afflicted mother a year later, in ’BO,

visited Zulu!and and beheld the spot where her brave son died.

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.

HOW EUGENIE’S SON WAS SLAIN.

WHERE THE PRINCE IMPERIAL FELL.

A ZULU WARRIOR.