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Medal - 1830-1980 1848 - Battle of Risquons Tout

Features

Location Belgium
Type Collection medallions
Year 1980
Composition Silver (.925)
Weight 1.7 g
Diameter 12 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
226763

Commemorative issue

History of Belgium in Medals

Series: Histoire de la Belgique en Medailles

Obverse

Troops at the Battle of Risquons Tout

Reverse

DateAutomatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering: 1848

Edge

Plain

Mint

Franklin Mint (The Franklin Mint), Wawa, Pennsylvania, United States (1964-2003)

Comments

Shortly after the French Revolution of 1848, Belgian migrant workers living in Paris were encouraged to return to Belgium to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic.  Around 6,000 émigrés, coming from Paris, formed a so-called Belgian Legion. The Legion, equipped with weaponry by some of the administrative authorities of Lille, intended to penetrate into Belgium to "raise the people" and overthrow the Belgian monarchy. It is likely that the revolutionaries had the support of Alphonse de Lamartine, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Second Republic, which had only recently been installed and was still very militant. The first group of revolutionaries attempted to travel into Belgium by train; they were stopped and quickly disarmed at Quiévrain on 26 March 1848.

 

The 2,000-strong second group entered Belgium at dawn on 29 March at Risquons-Tout. The revolutionaries were met by around 250 infantrymen of the Belgian Army under the command of General Joseph Fleury-Duray [fr]. A heavy cannonade routed the revolutionaries in only two hours, killing seven and wounding 26. 60 revolutionaries were captured and some were imprisoned in the Citadel of Huy, of whom 17 of them were condemned to death and executed at Antwerp. 

 

Several smaller revolutionary groups managed to infiltrate Belgium, but the reinforced Belgian border troops were successful in keeping order, and the defeat at Risquons-Tout effectively ended the revolutionary threat to Belgium. Later two streets were named after the incident, and a monument was erected in the local cemetery.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risquons-Tout

 

"Histoire de la Belgique en Medailles" (History of Belgium in Medals) series, is a set of 100 silver gilt medals commemorating the 150th anniversary of Belgian independence minted by the Franklin Mint. 

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Actual silver weight: 0.051 oz
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