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unusual facts about Eduard de Salis-Soglio



Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio

Salis was a friend of Samuel Wix (1771–1861), the pre-Tractarian high-churchman (i.e. pre-Oxford Movement), and paid for his Reflections concerning the expediency of a council of the Church of England and the Church of Rome being holden, with a view to accommodate religious differences (1818) to be translated into several languages.

Brother of John Foster, of Collon, county Louth, Baron Oriel, and last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.

John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio

Prince Eugene was grandson of François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet, Count de Caraman, 16th Prince de Chimay, (born Paris 21.9.1771, died Toulouse 2.3.1843), by Juana Maria Ignazia Teresa Cabarrús, Madame Tallien, (born Carabanchel Alto, Spain 31.7.1773, died Chimay 15.1.1835), whom he married in Paris 22.8.1805.

Soglio, Switzerland

Soglio lies on a ledge on the mountainside on the northern side of the Val Bregaglia (Bergell in German) above the river Maira (Mera in Italian), with views across the valley to the Bondasca glacier and the peaks of the Sciora group, Piz Cengalo and Piz Badile in the Bregaglia Range.

Sonderbund War

But contrary to triumphant proclamations in the Sonderbund newspapers, the action failed to effectively separate the federal troops under Luvini in the Ticino from those in the Grisons under Eduard de Salis-Soglio (the brother of the insurgent commander), because the San Bernardino Pass remained open to the Confederates.


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