An 1849 Medal For The Siege Of Rome Hold letter from RASC Records Department

letter from RASC Records Department (confirming that he had been Mentioned in Despatches

A Rare Macedonian VMRO Freedom or Death Merit Badge

Yeates and 2/Lt H

case about very fine condition

In the Spring of 1917

An 1849 Medal For The Siege Of Rome Hold letter from RASC Records DepartmentAn 1849 Medal for the Siege of Rome Bronze, 31. 8 mm, light contact, extremely fine. Footnote: The medal was created by Pope Pius IX to reward the 9,000 French troops under General Oudinot who restored Rome to him. In February 1849, a revolutionary mob led by Garibaldi and Mazzini seized power in Rome and proclaimed a Roman Republic. The Pope slipped out of Rome and called upon Catholic states to intervene. First was France whose Expeditionary Force