Medallic illustrations of the history of Great Britain and Ireland to the death of George II (1885)
Hawkins, Edward, 1780-1867, Franks, Augustus Wollaston, Sir, 1826-1897, Grueber, Herbert A. (Herbert Appold), 1846-1927 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees of the British museum · leaf 591
v. A female figure, r., wearing helmet, trampling on aFrench standard, and bearing a palm branch, attaches a shieldinscribed ad dettingam (At Dettingen), to a palm-tree, at the 576 GEOEGE II. 1743. base of which lies a pile of French arms and flags : before herreclines the Deity of the river Main,… … 212. Battle of Dettingen. MB. N. Bare. The army of the Allies was cooped up in a narrow valleybetween Mount Spessart and the Main, extending fromAschaffenburg on that river to the village of Dettingen, fromwhich place the battle took its name. This medal and the lastwere probably intended to be…
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