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fme_897046 - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Médaille, prototype, Revers de la médaille du Major General George H. Thomas

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Médaille, prototype, Revers de la médaille du Major General George H. Thomas AU/AU
250.00 €(Approx. 267.50$ | 212.50£)
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Type : Médaille, prototype, Revers de la médaille du Major General George H. Thomas
Date: 1865
Metal : various
Diameter : 76 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 23,85 g.
Edge : lisse + abeille CUIVRE
Puncheon : Abeille (1860 - 1880) CUIVRE
Coments on the condition:
Quelques concrétions vertes dans le creux de certains reliefs, notamment dans les légendes. Quelques coups et rayures

Obverse


Obverse legend : LISSE.

Reverse


Reverse legend : “I WILL HOLD THE TOWN TIL WE STARVE.” // À L’EXERGUE : BY JOINT RESOLUTION / ADOPTED NOV. 2. / 1865.
Reverse description : Vue sur le bâtiment de l’Assemblée générale du Tennessee. Signé : BORREL.

Commentary


Médaille en Bakélite.
La légende du revers reprend une des phrases dites par le Général Major George H. Thomas le 19 octobre 1863 pendant les batailles de Chattanooga.

Historical background


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

(since 1776)

Under McKinley's presidency (1897-1901), the United States confronted Spain and took Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines from it. Theodore Roosevelt succeeded the assassinated president (1901/1909) and undertook an interventionist policy in America and posed as a mediator in regional conflicts. To Taft succeeded in 1913 Wilson who was to bring the United States into the war in 1917.

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