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
Stanley, Thomas, Master of the Mint, 34.
Steinkirk, battle of, 386.
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 88.
Strangeways, Giles, 140.
Swedish troops withdrawn from Silesia, 449.
Swift, Dr. Jonathan, Dean of St. Patrick's, 486.
Syria, campaign in (1840), Turkish medal for, 578.
Taku Forts 1858, and Taku Forts 1860, clasps for:
_see_ Chinese War,
Second, medal for, 604.
Talavera, battle of, 545;
clasp for: _see_ Peninsular War medal, 592.
Throne of England established (1691), 376, 377.
Thurloe, John, 174.
Thurlow, Edward Lord, Lord Chancellor, 558.
Tippoo Sahib, wars with;
E. I. C. medals, 609—611.
Toleration Act, 347.
Torbay, landing of William III., 325—327.
Torres Vedras, lines of, 546.
Touch-pieces, 320—324.
Toulouse, clasp for: _see_ Peninsular War medal, 592.
Toulouse, Louis Alexander, Count of, commands at Malaga, 434.
Tournay, capitulation of, 462, 463.
Tower of London, 140;
bishops imprisoned in, 276.
Trafalgar, battle of, 544.
Trezzo, Giacomo, medals by, 15—18.
Triumph, saving of the, 158.
Turkey, medals granted by, for Egyptian campaign (1801), 572, 573;
naval award for Syrian campaign, 578;
Crimean medal, 599.
Uncertain portraits by A. Simon, 123, 251;
another by T. Simon, 177.
Union of England and Ireland, 541.
Union of England and Scotland, 444, 445;
celebrated at Leipsic, 446.
United Provinces, action of, in Quadruple Alliance, 484.
United Provinces, England and France, alliance of, 46, 47.
Utrecht, Peace of, 474—478
(preliminaries discussed, 474).
Van Gelder, Captain, memorial of, 229.
Vernon, Admiral, taking of Porto Bello, 493;
attempt on Carthagena, 494.
Victoria, military and naval medals;
service in India, 577;
Afghan war, 582—584;
first Chinese war, 585—587;
Sinde campaign, 588, 589;
first Sikh war, 590, 591;
military services (1793—1814), 592;
Indian general service, 593;
second Sikh war, 594;
second Burmese war, 595;
war in South Africa, 596;
war with Russia, 597, 598;
Persian war, 600;
Indian Mutiny, 601;
Arctic discoveries, 602;
war in New Zealand, 603;
second Chinese war, 604;
Abyssinian war, 605;
Ashantee war, 606.
Vienna, second treaty of, 492.
Vigo Bay, expedition to, 424, 425.
Vimiera, clasp for: _see_ Peninsular War medal, 592.
Vittoria, clasp for: _see_ Peninsular War medal, 592.
Wadham, Nicholas and Dorothy, 55.
Walker, defender of Londonderry;
death, 357.
Waller, Sir William, 104.
Walpole, Sir Robert, Earl of Orford, 508.
Washington, George, President of the United States, 566.
Washington, Lieut-Colonel, commands at battle of Cowpens, 523.
Wasp and Frolic, action between, 549.
Waterloo, battle of;
medal by Pistrucci, 552;
medal for, 576.
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