BHM #888 - 1815

The Duke of Wellington's Continental Victories
Box medal Br. 15 published by E. Thomason.
The following twenty-six medals are contained in a brass tube with an engraved inscription BRITISH VICTORIES around the tube. The lid is inset with a medal bearing the portrait of the Duke of Wellington on the obverse and on the reverse. MANUFACTURED / BY / E. THOMASON / BIRM. The base of the tube is inscribed FIRST / BATTLE / PORTUGAL / AUG. 17.1808 / LAST BATTLE / FRANCE / S.P.10.1814.
The medals have a common obverse of Victory flying left surmounted by the inscription BY THE MERCY OF GOD. The reverses are inscribed as follows:
1. AUG. 17 & 21 / ROLIERA & VIMIERA / 1808 (See No.636).
2. MAY 12 / OPORTO / 1809 (See No.672).
3. JULY 27 / TALAVERA / 1809 (See No.674).
4. JANUARY 16 / CORUNNA / 1809 (See No.670).
5. SEP. 27 / BUZACO / 1810 (See No.696).
6. OCT. 7 / COIMBRA / 1810 (See No.697).
7. MAY 3 / FUENTE / DE ONORO / 1811 (See No.716).
8. MARCH 5 / BARRASA / 1811 (See No.715).
9. MAY 11 / ALMEIDA / 1811 (See No.717).
10. MAY 16 /ALBUHERA / 1811 (See No.719).
11. OCT. 28 / ARROYO / DEL / MOLINO / 1811 (See No.720).
12. JAN 19 / CIUDAD / RODRIGO / 1812 (See No.732).
13. APRIL 6 / BADAJOS / 1812 (See No.733).
14. MAY 19 / ALMARAZ / 1812 (See No.734).
15. JULY 22 / SALAMANCA / 1812 (See No.736).
16. AUG. 14 / MADRID / 1812 (See No.739).
17. MAY 12 / CASTALLA / 1813 (See No.755).
18. JUNE 21 / VITTORIA / 1813 (See No.757).
19. JULY / 25.26.27.28 / PYRENEES / 1813 (See No.759).
20. SEP. 9 / ST SEBASTIAN / 1813 (See No.762).
21. OCT. 9/ BIDDASSOA / 1813 (See No.764).
22. OCT. 31 / PAMPELUNA / 1813 (See No.766).
23. DEC / 9.10.11.12.13. / NEIVE / 1813 (See No.767).
24. FEB. 27 / ORTHES / 1814 (See No.788).
25. APRIL 10 / TOULOUSE / 1814 (See No.790).
26. JUNE 18 / WATERLOO / 1815 (inscribed within wreath) (See No.878).
Complete box RR; individual medal N.
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Some boxes are inscribed MANUFACTURED BY E. THOMASON BIRM. others MANUFACTURED BY THOMASON & JONES. It has not been possible to ascertain what a complete set of medals comprises since some of the medals also occur without dates and there are variants in the spelling of the battles. Perhaps two separate sets were issued, one by the firm as E. Thomason and the other as Thomason & Jones.
from British Historical Medals, Volume 1, p. 215-216
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