A Guide to the Exhibition of English MedalsBritish Museum. Department of Coins and Medals
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A Guide to the Exhibition of English Medals
British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals
Medals -- Great Britain
Rodriguez, Island of, capture;
E. I. C. medal, 613.
Roleia, clasp for: _see_ Peninsular War medal, 592.
Roman Catholic Chapels destroyed, 329.
Rose, badge of, 2.
Rossiter, Edward, General, 120.
Royal family of England, 490.
Rupert, Prince, 108.
Russell, Admiral, commands at battle of La Hogue, 381, 382.
Russia, war with;
medals, 597—599.
Rye House Plot, 240.
Ryswick, Peace of, 406—410.
Sacheverell, Dr. Henry, 472, 473.
Sackville, Richard, Earl of Dorset, Lord Buckhurst;
portrait by Passe, 67.
St. Eustatius, Island of;
capture, 525.
St. Sebastian, capture of, 557.
St. Vincent, Admiral John Jervis, Earl of;
engagement off Cape St. Vincent, 536.
St. Vincent, Cape of;
engagement off, 536.
Salamanca, battle of, 547;
victories up to, 548;
clasp for;
_see_ Peninsular War medal, 592.
Salamander, emblem of fortitude, 136.
Sancroft, Archbishop and Bishops, 273, 275, 276;
and Pleiades, 274;
and Church, 277.
Saragoza, victory of, 470.
Sardinia taken, 457.
Scheveningen, embarkation of Charles II. at, 192.
Schomberg, Marshal;
death of, 357;
memorial, 417.
Scobell, Henry, 173.
Scone, coronation of Charles II. at, 181.
Scotland, attempted invasion by Elder Pretender (1708), 450—453;
rebellion of Elder Pretender (1715), 481, 482;
(1746), 498.
Scotland and England, union of, 444, 445;
celebrated at Leipsic, 446.
Scottish coast attacked by American fleet, 522.
Scottish coronation of Charles I., 74, 75;
return from, 76—78.
Scottish Parliament, opening of (1685), 263.
Sebastopol, clasp for: _see_ Crimean campaign, medal for, 597.
Sedgemoor, battle of, and defeat of Monmouth, 266.
Seringapatam, taking of, E. I. C. medal, 611.
Service against six ships, 153.
Services acknowledged by Charles II., 191.
Seven Bishops, trial of, 273—277.
Seven Years' War, 506, 507, 517.
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley, Earl of, 256.
Shelley, Richard, Grand Prior of England, 28.
Sheriff-Muir, battle of, 482.
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 561.
Sikh War, First (1845—6), medals for, 590, 591;
Second (1848—9), medal for, 594.
Simon, Abraham, portrait, 253.
Simon, Thomas, portrait, 252.
Sinde campaign (1843), medals for, 588, 589.
Sligo taken, 371.
Slingesby, Sir Henry B., 172.
Smith, Adam, 565.
Sobraon and Aliwal, medal for, 591;
_see also_ Moodkee, &c.
Solebay, battle of, 226.
"Soleil Royal" burnt at battle of La Hogue, 382.
South Africa, campaigns in, medal for, 596.
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesly, Earl of, 249, 250.
Spain, Peace with (1604), 42—44;
proposed commercial treaty with (1666), 214;
victories of the Allies in (1706), 442;
war with (1739—41), 493, 494;
(1782), 528, 592;
(1797), 535—538;
(1850), 544.
Spanish Succession, war of, 423—434, 437—443, 447—449, 454—471,
474—478, 492.
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