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Description: | Medal commemorating the Dutch squadron captured by Admiral Jean Bart, 1696. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Holland with her lion and arrows sitting on the sea shore, her arms raised in horror at the sight of a burning ship. Legend: 'INCENS . AUT CAPT . HOST . NAV . ONER . XXX . BELL . III.' (Thirty merchantmen and three men-of-war of the enemy's fleet captured and burnt.) Exergue: 'AD TEXELLAM . M . DC . XCVI .' (Off the Texel, 1696.)
caption: Medal commemorating the Dutch squadron captured by Admiral Jean Bart, 1696; obverse
caption: Medal commemorating the Dutch squadron captured by Admiral Jean Bart, 1696; reverse | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Bart medals Jean Louis XIV King of France | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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