2-995-691 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

General Türr, Garibaldi's chief aide-de-camp, 1860. '...General commanding a division of the army of the liberator Garibaldi Dictator of Sicily...[He is] a native of Hungary, and comes of a noble although not a titled family. He is about thirty-five or thirty-six years of age, tall, handsome, and of distinguished appearance and soldierly bearing...in Brescia, Türr was passing a house whence he heard shrieks of distress. Entering...he found a family in the hands of the brutal Croats, and rescued two beautiful girls from their barbarity. Such incidents as these determined the young soldier to devote his sword to the cause of liberty when Hungary rose against the tyranny of the Hapsburgs. Throughout that war he fought bravely; and when hostilities between England and Russia broke out he offered his services, which were accepted, to this country. Being sent into the Principalities to select and purchase horses for the British troops, the zeal of Türr led him to expose himself somewhat rashly to the Austrian authorities, and he was seized at Bucharest while wearing a British uniform, thrown into a dungeon, and condemned to be hanged...Türr fought in the Crimea towards the close of the war, and was present at the battle of the Tchernaya'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.