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Auction: 24123 - British and World Coins and Medals featuring the Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 974

The French Lines Passed and Bouchain Taken, AR Medal, 1711, by John Croker and S. Bull, ANNA • AVGVSTA •, laureate bust left, rev. HOSTES • AD • DEDITIONEM • COACTI •, French soldier surrenders his sword to a female figure seated amongst captured arms and holding a shield inscribed FORTVNA MANEMS, town in distance, VALLO • GALLORVM • SVPERATO • ET • BVCHEMIO • CAPTO • MDCCXI • in exergue in three lines, edge plain, 45mm, 35.91g (Eimer 450; MI ii, 385/237, van Loon V, 188), cleaned and bagmarking to the fields, nevertheless struck in handsome high-relief, hints of toning to the peripheries, bolder very fine

The Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals



The campaign of 1711 was conducted by Marlborough, he resolved to invest Bouchain but it was first necessary to pass the lines which Villars had constructed in the direction of Arras and Cambray with such strength that he deemed them impregnable and called of skilful movements and manoeuvres. Marlborough utterly deceived Vaillars and passed the lines without the loss of a man. He then invested Bouchain in the face of the superior army of the French and on the 3/14 September the garrison surrendered themselves prisoners of war. Marlborough here "exhibited a sublimity of military talent which justly stamped this campaign as not the least scientific and glorious of his whole campaign"

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