An 1849 Medal For The Siege Of Rome Hold Yeates and 2/Lt H

Yeates and 2/Lt H

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

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An 1849 Medal For The Siege Of Rome Hold Yeates and 2/Lt HAn 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