An 1849 Medal For The Siege Of Rome certificate_of_authenticity Accompanied by copies of his

Accompanied by copies of his Service Records and Recommendation Letter for the Efficiency Medal

Cross unmarked but likely of Austrian

as very few were produced during the war

three miles west of Prescott

Schmidhäussler

An 1849 Medal For The Siege Of Rome certificate_of_authenticity Accompanied by copies of hisAn 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