Queen Anne, Duke of Marlborough, Battle of Ramillies and the Conquest of Brabant
Queen Anne, Duke of Marlborough, Battle of Ramillies and the Conquest of Brabant, silver medal, 1706, G. Hautsch, armoured bust of the duke of Marlborough three quarters facing with te star mark of Hautsch below the bust, IOH . D . G . S . R . I . PR . D . MARL . EXERC . ANGL . C . G. rev. Mars ith the shields of Brabant, Flanders and Antwerp and also a trophy of captured arms, PRETIVM NON VILE LABORVM, (NO WORTHLESS REWARD OF HIS LABOURS)GALLIS ACIE DEVICTIS . BRABANTIA . FLANDR, ET . ANTWERP . XV . DIER . SP . EREPT . 1706. (THE FRENCH DEFEATED IN BATTLE, BRABANT, FLANDERS, AND ANTWERP RESCUED IN THE SPACE OF FIFTEEN DAYS. ), MARTE FEROX, ET VINCI NESCIVS ARMIS. VIRG. (Fierce in battle, and ignorant of defeat in arms. - Virgil), 38 mm. ( MI 287/95). Some early damage to the surface of the nose and a small flaw in the metal on the obverse rim, otherwise, extremely fine and toned, rare. £850.00
The medal was struck in honour of the Duke of Marlborough, who, in the space of fifteen days after the battle of Ramillies, secured for the Archduke Charles, Brabant, Flanders, and the city of Antwerp, the siege of which place he had calculated would delay him a month. The edge anticipates the remark made at the close of the Duke of Marlborough's career, that he never besieged a fortress which he did not take, nor fought a battle which he did not gain. The quotation on the edge is not from Virgil but from Ovid,
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