. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. with theconsent of the Prussian government, hewas employed in introducing variousimprovements into the service, and su-perintending the reorganization of theTurkish army. He remained severalyears in the country, and accompaniedthe army in its campaign in Syriaagainst Mehemet Ali, of Egypt, andwas decorated for distinguished ser-vices on the field. Returning to Prus-sia, he resumed, in 1841, liis connec-tion with the staff, and the next yearbecame major. He prepared aboutthis time a volume of letters on thecirc
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. with theconsent of the Prussian government, hewas employed in introducing variousimprovements into the service, and su-perintending the reorganization of theTurkish army. He remained severalyears in the country, and accompaniedthe army in its campaign in Syriaagainst Mehemet Ali, of Egypt, andwas decorated for distinguished ser-vices on the field. Returning to Prus-sia, he resumed, in 1841, liis connec-tion with the staff, and the next yearbecame major. He prepared aboutthis time a volume of letters on thecircumstances of Turkey, during theperiod of his employment by that gov-ernment, which was issued at Berlin in1841, with an introduction by thegeographer, Carl Ritter. He also, in1845, published an elaborate work onthe military campaign of Russia inEuropean Turkey, in 1828-29, wliichwas subsequently translated intoFrench and English, the latter versionbearing the title The Russians inBulgaria and Roumelia in 1828 and1829. In 1840, he was appointedaide-de-camp to Prince Henry of Prus-. /^?«^<^^2*--^^i^c2^ COUNT VON MOLTKE. 3Gi si a, then resident in Rome, after whosedeath, in 1847, he was engaged in con-nection with the general command onthe Rhine, becoming in 1848, a mem-ber of the Grand General Staff, and in1849, chief of the staff of the fourtharmy corps in Magdeburg. In 1850,he became lieutenant-colonel; in 1851,full colonel, and in 1855, was appoint-ed major-general, when he was assignedas aide-de-camp to Prince FrederickWilliam, King of Prussia, and Emper-or of Germany of after-days, and in1858, was appointed Chief of theGrand General Staff of the PrussianArmy, and, the following year, to therank of lieutenant-general. In the war between Austria andItaly, which ensued. Gen. Moltke waspresent in the Austrian head-quarters,and at its conclusion, superintended anofficial account of the campaign, whichwas published at Berlin, in 1812. Hewas now actively devoted to the im-prove
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