Medal commemorating Marshall MacDonald's visit to Great Britain

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French medal of Marshal MacDonald, Duke of Tarente, commemorating his visit to Britain in 1825. He visited Scotland, including South Uist where his father Neil MacEachan was born. MacEachan changed his name to MacDonald when he went to France.

Made of copper with a coating of bronze. The inscription reads Armées du Nord, de Rome, de Naples, de Réserve, des Grisons, d'Italie, d'Allemagne, de Catalogne, de Russie, de Prusse, de La Loire. Né a Sédan le 17 nov. 1765.

Jacques Etienne Joseph Alexandre MacDonald was born in Sedan, France, the son of a Scot who had followed Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Charles Edward Stewart or Bonnie Prince Charlie) into exile. He became a Marshal of France under Napoleon and was created Duke of Tarente, now Taranto, in Italy.

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• Online ID: 000-000-100-301-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Thistle at War
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1983.349
• Date: 1825
  
• Material: Bronzed copper
  Medal, commemorative
  
• Dimensions: 51 mm Dia
  
• What: Medal, commemorative
  
• Subject: Medals
  
• Who: French (Non-British forces, inc. Imperial and Colonial)
  Marshal Jacques Etienne Joseph Alexandre MacDonald, Duke of Tarentum
  Prince Charles Edward Stewart or Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) (associated)
  
• Where: France, Sedan (birthplace of person commemorated)
  Scotland, Outer Hebrides, South Uist (birthplace of his father)
  
• Event:
• Description: French - Bronze medallion of Marshal Jacques Etienne Joseph Alexandre MacDonald, Duke of Tarente, commemorating his visit to Britain in 1825.
  
• References:
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997 
  • Wood, Stephen The Auld Alliance: Scotland and France, the military connection Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1989 
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