1592970592000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141339 1747245964305 1711380476000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141339 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141339 34c1b81e-3ea5-30b6-8b97-9729a5109b08 8 reference term-42993 adlib-term-42993 93884c6f-c60c-39f7-a75d-f84d65288fe0 medal reference term-122711 adlib-term-122711 1db96904-a474-3b61-a8e5-6c2d9dd557ab Lester Watson Collection Coins and Medals The numerous campaigns of the forces of the British East India Company were not officially recognised with a medal until 1851, in the same move as that which created the Military and Naval General Service Medals for service in the contemporary French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The resulting Army of India medal covered battles from 1799 to 1826 in a theatre where many subsequent conflicts had arisen, so many of those involved were no longer living. Queen Victoria, by whose order the medal was issued and whose bust it therefore carried, was likewise not on the throne for the actions for which it was awarded. The Maratha Empire, a Hindu confederacy which began in 1674, had in 1796 fallen into the hands of the Peshwa ruler Baji Rao II. A rebellion by Subadar Holkar VI of Indore in 1802 defeated his forces and the Peshwa forthwith concluded a treaty with the British East India Company, trading territory for protection. Baji Rao's subjects greeted this with outrage and rebellion ensued, which the British moved to suppress for Baji Rao in 1803. Among the rebels were the Bhonsle rulers of Nagpur and Berar, whose forces under prince Raghoji II were defeated conclusively at Assye despite more than tenfold superiority, and again in a rather less certain battle at Argaon (Argaum as the bar has it). The British force responsible, under Sir Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, went on to take the supposedly impregnable fortress of Gawilghur. This medal was awarded to Lieutenant Edward Osborn of the 2nd Native Infantry. Lester Watson purchased this medal later than most of his collection, from the London dealer Baldwin in 1930. CM.1245-2009 1 accession number CM.1245-2009 141339 priref 141339 Watson Catalogue 144 ordering M-0128 previous object number LW.0128 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141339 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141339 Bust of Victoria facing left obverse VICTORIA REGINA design Victory seated facing left before palm and war spoils, holding laurel branch and wreath reverse design reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009 reference agent-206432 adlib-agent-206432 e0b1da8e-f9e4-30be-9257-f82c89d45afb Watson, Lester 2009 2009 2009 given on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum 2005-2009 1851 1851 1851 mint reference agent-149658 adlib-agent-149658 4cb81521-c6ef-3826-8224-de2a104139c5 London issuer reference agent-167567 adlib-agent-167567 5ce1f666-30e0-383b-bee5-fff00c8b2f38 East India Company artist reference agent-174941 adlib-agent-174941 8ba653dd-3bef-332c-a3cb-822cc499c1fd Wyon, William ruler reference agent-151398 adlib-agent-151398 bb2cd0a1-0a27-3787-a684-475d3b199972 Victoria (1837-1901) with the title of ruler reference agent-174943 adlib-agent-174943 9c2be08c-ce74-3f9c-b796-3c936a5088e0 Victoria regina reference term-106216 adlib-term-106216 825b8379-ec94-388e-9a59-624e40c090d0 London reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Diameter mm 35.9 Weight g 43.89 reference media-116229 adlib-media-116229 fa03d18c-2a00-3969-8ca3-7a1ae5dd6418 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0128_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 104 1742589801063 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0128_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 104 1742589801063 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0128_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 104 1742589801063 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0128_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 104 1742589801063 1 image 0 media image reference media-116230 adlib-media-116230 e9f0ce75-b242-3fe9-8f7c-1f43850f267b jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0128_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 101 1742589744115 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0128_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 101 1742589744115 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0128_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 101 1742589744115 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0128_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 101 1742589744115 1 image 1 media image reference term-122852 adlib-term-122852 d91acf02-762a-3e7b-87a9-6b5dded9e3b1 Army of India Medal denomination reference term-98222 adlib-term-98222 b5ccc43a-7491-344e-b6ca-5df39a11c50e medals series reference term-108659 adlib-term-108659 cc732dec-4543-389e-a737-cf22bb7d2ee2 Military subseries reference term-107681 adlib-term-107681 e80da827-45c6-3b71-a3ef-28794a05e4a8 Britain subsubseries reference term-122717 adlib-term-122717 140af9ad-d215-34d9-9d42-52ecb5d3fead British Army subsubsubseries history note Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin 1930 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 194-196, 196, 198-199, 199-200 reference publication-5886 adlib-publication-5886 a6056c29-399c-38dd-9710-5b3f2d44b8a6 British Battles and Medals 7th edn reference publication-5910 adlib-publication-5910 0d1d8526-5493-32bd-93b4-acd4cdcec7f9 British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)

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