Medaglia Conquista Algeria 1830 - Conquete D'Alger Le 5 Julliet 1830

Medaglia Conquista Algeria 1830 - Conquete D'Alger Le 5 Julliet 1830

France/ Algeria, Conquest of Algiers by France 1830.
Obv: War and Justice fly above a sea-monster representing Barbary seapower:

CONQUÊTE D’ALGER LE 5 JUILLET 1830 - around (Conquest of Algiers 5th July 1830)
Rev: LE COMTE DE BOURMONT GÉNÉRAL EN CHEF DE L’ARMÉE FRANÇAISE

in 5 lines within wreath (General Bourmont Commander in Chief of the French Army)

Comte de Chaisne de Bourmont (b. 1773 - d. 1846) he was appointed colonel (1810) and general (1814) by Napoleon but he abandoned his post three days before the Battle of Waterloo and joined Louis XVIII at Ghent.

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