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TEGETTHOFF, WILHELM VON, See also:BARON (1827-1871) , See also:Austrian See also:admiral, son of See also:Lieutenant-See also:Colonel Karl von Tegetthoff, was See also:born at See also:Marburg, in See also:Styria, on the 23rd of See also:December 1827. After passing through the See also:naval See also:college at See also:Venice, he first served afloat in 1845, and in 1848 was made an See also:ensign. In 1849 he was See also:present at the See also:blockade of Venice, resulting in its surrender. In 1852 he was promoted to be a lieutenant, and during the See also:Crimean See also:war was employed on a sort of See also:police See also:duty at the See also:Sulina mouth of the See also:Danube, which brought him to the favourable See also:notice of the See also:Archduke See also:Maximilian, who in 18J4 had been appointed See also:head of the See also:navy with the See also:style of See also:rear-admiral. After some See also:time in a semi-See also:official scientific expedition in See also:Egypt, See also:Arabia, and the Red See also:Sea down to the See also:island of Socotra, Tegetthoff was promoted to the See also:rank of See also:captain of the third class, and in 1858 he commanded the corvette " Erzherzog See also:Friedrich " on the See also:coast of See also:Morocco, then in a very disturbed See also:state. The corvette returned to See also:Trieste on the imminence of the war with See also:France; but during 1859 the See also:French See also:fleet commanded the Adriatic in vastly See also:superior force, against which the Austrians were powerless. After the See also:peace Tegetthoff made a voyage to See also:Brazil as aide-de-See also:camp to Maximilian, and in 186o-63 commanded a large See also:frigate in the See also:Levant during the disturbances in See also:Syria, and on the coast of See also:Greece or in the Piraeus at the time of the See also:Greek revolution. Towards the end of 1863 he was sent to the See also:North Sea as See also:commodore in command of two frigates, with which, together with three small Prussian gunboats, he fought an See also:action with the Danish See also:squadron, and though without any decisive success, succeeded in raising the blockade of the mouths of the See also:Elbe and See also:Weser. The Austrian See also:emperor answered. Tegetthoff's telegraphic despatch by another promoting him to be rear-admiral, and conferring on him the See also:Order of the See also:Iron See also:Crown. In 1865 he commanded a small squadron in the Mediterranean, and in the war of r866 was placed in command of the whole effective force of the Austrian navy. With all his efforts, however, this was markedly inferior to the See also:Italian force opposed to it, and when the two fleets met off See also:Lissa on the loth of See also:July, the decisive victory of the Austrians was entirely due to the See also:personal superiority of Tegetthoff and the See also:officers whom he in See also:great measure had trained.

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numbers, in See also:ships, and in armament the Italians were much the more powerful, but they had neither a capable See also:chief nor efficient officers. Tegetthoff was immediately promote,4i, by See also:telegraph, to the rank of See also:vice-admiral, and among the many decorations conferred on him was one from his former See also:commander, the unfortunate Maximilian, at this time emperor of See also:Mexico, whose See also:body was in the following See also:year brought See also:home by Tegetthoff. In See also:March 1868 he was appointed head of the naval See also:section of the War See also:Office and commander-inchief of the navy, which offices he held till his See also:death at See also:Vienna, after a very See also:short illness, on the 7th of See also:April 187r—in the words of the semi-official notice—" zu fruh See also:fur Osterreich." (J. K.

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