DE COURTEN, VITTORIO. - Pontifical officer, brother of General Count Raffaele de Courten, born at Sion (Valais) in 1810, died there on 25 Nov. 1887.

He entered the service of the Holy See in the foreign infantry in 1832, and with the rank of lieutenant he distinguished himself greatly during the campaign of 1848, and especially on 10 June at Vicenza. Promoted major on 21 June 1855 and lieutenant colonel in the 2nd foreign regiment on 7 Aug. 1860, he took part in the defense of Perugia, obtaining honorable terms from the royal troops for the surrender of that garrison. Having been placed on the retired list in 1861, in 1867 he wished to enlist as a simple soldier in the foreign carabinieri battalion, fighting in several places and assuming with skill and valor the command of that same battalion on the field of Mentana (3 Nov.), after Major Castella had been wounded.

Bibliography

BIBL.: P. Dalla Torre, Materiali per una storia dell'esercito pontificio, in Rass. stor. del Risorg., 28 (1941), p. 34 of the offprint.

Paolo Dalla Torre

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