Italian 1863 Brigata Estense Medal South Africa with communications and a tail

with communications and a tail element covering and bringing up the rear

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Italian 1863 Brigata Estense Medal South Africa with communications and a tailThe 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