IDENTIFIERS
-----------
id:	141311
accession number:	CM.1217-2009

DATE AUDIT
----------
created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
----------------
object type: General Napoleon Bonaparte, in 1798 not yet in power in France, conceived the idea of attacking Egypt to cut Britain off from India, and was sent to do so at least partly so as to remove him from turbulent Paris. However, in the wake of a triumphant naval victory by Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson at Aboukir Bay, and a general lack of strategic success despite several crushing victories over Egyptian and Ottoman forces, Bonaparte returned to France in 1799 to take power by coup. French troops remained in the country until 1801, however, when a force under Sir Ralph Abercromby was dispatched to expel them. He was aided in this by a contingent supplied by the Honourable East India Company, and in 1802 the Company approved the issue of this medal for the men who had taken part.
The medal is unnamed, so we do not know who the recipient of this example was. Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Gifford in 1927.
title:	Honourable East India Company's Egypt Medal

NOTES
-----
type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Gifford 1927.


LICENSING
---------
text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
---------
instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
----------
url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141311





TECHNIQUES
----------
struck

CATEGORIES
------
category: medal

DATING
------
creation date:	1801 - 1801
creation date earliest:	1801
creation date latest:	1801

CREATORS
--------
maker: Calcutta
maker: East India Company
maker: George III (1760-1820)

DIMENSIONS
----------
dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 49

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 47.26



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
-------------------
title:	Images of Empire: The British Empire on 19th century medals
CITATIONS
--------
Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations Awarded to the Ar
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
---
IMAGES

surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0100_281_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 141 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0100_281_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 141 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0100_281_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 141 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0100_281_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 141 pixels


surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0100_282_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 145 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0100_282_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 145 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0100_282_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 145 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0100_282_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 145 pixels