Note 63 — Chapter 38 Switzerland—James Fazy and the Refugees—Monte Rosa

Blenker, Ludwig (born 1812), served in 1832 in Greece in the Bavarian legion of King Otto, and was afterwards a wine merchant in Worms. In 1848 he became a prominent figure of the revolutionary party in Rheingessen, and as a leader of the insurgents took Worms and stormed Landau. When the Baden rising was suppressed he escaped to Switzerland, whence he was expelled, and then went to America, where during the Civil War in 1861 he collected a troop of German Jäger and saved Washington from the enemy, became a general, but afterwards for some negligence in the commissariat was forcibly retired with M’Clellan, and spent the rest of his days peacefully on his farm.—(Translator’s Note.)