Henningsen, CHARLES FREDERICK, an English soldier of fortune and author, was born in 1815, served with the Carlists in Spain, where he rose to the command of the cavalry, with the Russians in Circassia, with Kossuth in Hungary, and with Walker in Nicaragua. In the American civil war he commanded a brigade on the Confederate side; and he afterwards was employed to superintend the manufacture of Minié rifles. He died at Washington, 14th June 1877. His books are for the most part records of travel and personal adventure, but include also The Past and Future of Hungary (1852), and The White Slave, a novel.
Henningsen, CHARLES FREDERICK
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 643
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