An 1849 Medal For The Siege Of Rome certificate_of_authenticity WWI 29th Infantry Battalion Cap

WWI 29th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge CEF - Browning copper

as very few were produced during the war

three miles west of Prescott

Photos (lot 4): 26 medium size photos (mostly 9x12cm)

An 1849 Medal For The Siege Of Rome certificate_of_authenticity WWI 29th Infantry Battalion CapAn 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