Ettore Bertolè Viale

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Ettore Bertolè Viale

Ettore Bertolè Viale (born November 25, 1829 in Genoa , † November 13, 1892 in Turin ) was an Italian lieutenant general and politician.

Life

Ettore Bertolè Viale joined the Military Academy in Turin in November 1844, was appointed captain to the General Staff by La Marmora after the first Italian War of Independence in 1848/49 and took part in the Crimean War as captain in 1855 . In 1859 he distinguished himself in the fighting on the Sesia during the Second Italian War of Independence and was appointed to the ministry by the War Minister of Emilia and later Italy, Manfredo Fanti . In the third Italian War of Independence of 1866, which he participated as a colonel , he was promoted to general manager of the army and major general.

After the peace, Bertolè Viale was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1867 , to which he was a member of the right-wing center until 1880. In October 1867 he succeeded Genova Giovanni Thaon di Revel as Minister of War, improved the army, which had been reduced by excessive frugality, but resigned with the Italian Prime Minister Federico Luigi Menabrea in December 1869. In 1871 he was promoted to lieutenant general . He then headed the General Staff from 1874 to 1880, while at the same time serving as the first wing adjutant of King Victor Emmanuel II . Appointed senator in 1881 , he commanded the army corps of Florence , in 1884 refused the Ministry of War offered to him by Prime Minister Agostino Depretis because the finance minister did not accept the conditions he had set, but in April 1887 he accepted the portfolio again offered to him and kept it under Francesco Crispi until February 1891. The organization of the newly formed African colonial troops was his particular merit. He died in Turin on November 13, 1892 at the age of 63.

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SURNAME Bertolè Viale, Ettore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lieutenant general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1892
Place of death Turin