Italian 1863 Brigata Estense Medal South Africa All Buttons/Snaps present

All Buttons/Snaps present

We Fear Naught But God: The Pictorial Edition of The South African Special Forces by Paul J Els

EDITION AND LITERARY ARTISTIC PROPERTY OF THE C

Acquired directly from a Swedish Veteran's family who served with the United Nations in the Congo

let alone how close it came to success

Italian 1863 Brigata Estense Medal South Africa All Buttons/Snaps presentThe medal for the dissolved Estense Brigade also known as the emigration medal was a medal of merit decreed by Duke Francesco V of Modena to reward the men of the Estense Brigade who were still with him at the time of its dissolution on 24 September 1863. Shortly after the outbreak of the second war of independence, Francesco V had to leave Modena, for the third and last time, on 11 June 1859, while the Austrian army left Lombardy to move under the