WHM 5

  • WHM 5
  • Medal
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • United Kingdom
  • 1799 AD
  • Copper alloy
  • Struck
  • Circular
  • 38 mm
  • 25.19g
  • 12h
  • Hennin 847; Julius 620.
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut). CNG, 985506.
  • 2015-04-12
  • Medal designed in 1799 AD probably by Kempson and Kidon of Birmingham. It commemorates the landing of Napoleon and his army at Alexandria on the 2nd of July 1798 AD.

NAPOLEONE BUONAPARTE (above), GENERAL OF THE FRENCH ARMY IN EGYPT (below),

bust of Napoleon facing, head left, wearing military uniform.

LANDED AT ALEXANDRIA | JULY 2nd 1798 ยท | MDCCXCIX (in exergue),

two tents, cannon, pile of arms, and stacks of cannonballs before pyramid


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