Letter
[Enclosure E.—Telegram.—Translation.], November 8, 1866
[Enclosure E.—Telegram.—Translation.]
[Presented at Velletri November 8, 1866, 8.35 a. m.; arrived at Rome November 8, 1666, 8.50 a. m.]
His Excellency the General, Minister of Arms, Rome :
I received the following telegram, dated 4.30 a. m., from Captain Zambilly :
At the moment he left the prison, and while surrounded by six men as a guard, Watson threw himself into the ravine, above a hundred feet perpendicular in depth, which defends the prison. Fifty zouaves in pursuit of him.
I will transmit to your excellency the intelligence I may receive by telegraph.
ALLET, Lieutenant Colonel.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty.