1592963646000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141441 1747245968070 1711380494000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141441 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141441 6fedbef0-c902-37b3-aed9-231ca0e4db05 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 Mysore, in the far south of modern India, was the centre of a kingdom from the fifteenth century until 1947, but from the late eighteenth century and especially after the close of the Anglo-Maratha Wars one that felt itself increasingly menaced by the growing territory of the British East India Company. This led Tipu Sultan, the so-called Tiger of Mysore, to make an alliance with France prior to attacking the British Protectorate of Travancore in 1790. The French Revolution of that year meant that the aid on which Tipu had relied did not transpire, and Mysore lost considerable amounts of territory in its subsequent defeat by the British East India Company's forces. At the close of the campaign, the British government, by means of the East India Co., issued this medal to its Indian troops who had served in it. This medal is unnamed, and its recipient, who would have been one of the many different nationalities of Indian troops employed by the Company on this campaign, cannot be retrieved. Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Gifford in 1927. reference exhibition-2271 adlib-exhibition-2271 605a8492-3164-31f4-a420-511eba2bdb91 Images of Empire: The British Empire on 19th century medals 32 reference exhibition-1967 adlib-exhibition-1967 6984c1c2-8fb8-37f2-bc1e-13468b4a0475 Imagery of War CM.1347-2009 1 accession number CM.1347-2009 141441 priref 141441 Watson Catalogue 253 ordering M-0230 previous object number LW.0230 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141441 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141441 Sepoy holding upright Union Jack and upturned standard of Mysore obverse FOR / SERVICES / IN MYSORE / A.D. 1791-1792 design Central inscription with laurel wreath outside all in Persian marginal inscription 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 1792 CE 1792 1792 mint reference agent-167755 adlib-agent-167755 627a5b0f-5cae-3ff7-a61b-7f2fe07b5c96 Calcutta issuer reference agent-167567 adlib-agent-167567 5ce1f666-30e0-383b-bee5-fff00c8b2f38 East India Company die-engraver reference agent-174991 adlib-agent-174991 1d66131b-a0a9-3849-bf35-ae738f6c9f7f Mair, Mr inferred ruler reference agent-51006 adlib-agent-51006 96512349-0740-3b52-b3d9-08460e8d9530 George III (1760-1820) reference term-123133 adlib-term-123133 f13e3f6e-a3e0-3063-8865-7cbee4ef9327 Calcutta reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Diameter mm 38 Weight g 15.84 reference media-116433 adlib-media-116433 5f7df093-540c-3851-a96f-24c9807c715c jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0230_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 129 1742589746837 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0230_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 129 1742589746837 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0230_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 129 1742589746837 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0230_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 129 1742589746837 1 image 0 media image reference media-116434 adlib-media-116434 3dc9dcb7-b064-35ce-90b4-2e06842ca02f jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0230_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 132 1742589753480 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0230_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 132 1742589753480 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0230_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 132 1742589753480 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0230_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 132 1742589753480 1 image 1 media image reference term-122966 adlib-term-122966 ac140011-cd2f-3ee7-b182-ef5d1024d6cf Mysore Campaign 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 Gifford 1927. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 26 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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