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BARON WILHELM VON TEGETTHOFF (1827-1871) , See also: Austrian See also: admiral, son of See also: Lieutenant-Colonel Karl von Tegetthoff, was See also: born at Marburg, in Styria, on the 23rd of See also: December 1827
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After passing through the See also: naval See also: college at Venice, he first served afloat in 1845, and in 1848 was made an ensign
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In 1849 he was See also: present at the blockade of Venice, resulting in its surrender
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In 1852 he was promoted to be a lieutenant, and during the See also: Crimean war was employed on a sort of police
duty at the See also: Sulina mouth of the Danube, which brought him to the favourable See also: notice of the 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
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After some See also: time in a semi-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 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
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The corvette returned to Trieste on the imminence of the war with See also: France; but during 1859 the French See also: fleet commanded the Adriatic in vastly See also: superior force, against which the Austrians were powerless
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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
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Towards the end of 1863 he was sent to the See also: North Sea as 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 Elbe and Weser
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The Austrian emperor answered
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Tegetthoff's telegraphic despatch by another promoting him to be rear-admiral, and conferring on him the See also: Order of the Iron See also: Crown
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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
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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 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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In numbers, inSee also: ships, and in armament the Italians were much the more powerful, but they had neither a capable chief nor efficient officers
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Tegetthoff was immediately promote,4i, by 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 Mexico, whose See also: body was in the following See also: year brought home by Tegetthoff
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In See also: March 1868 he was appointed head of the naval section of the War Office and commander-inchief of the navy, which offices he held till his
See also: death at 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 fur Osterreich."
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