Summary

Medal les Aigles Francaises sur la Vistule, 'French Army on the Banks of the Vistula', Issued by France & Prussia,1807
Artist: Bertrand Andrieu and Nicholas Guy Antoine Brenet
Minted by Paris Mint

Obverse Description

Laureate head facing right; around, NAPOLEON EMP. ET ROI.; on neck truncation, ANDRIEU F.

Reverse Description

The Nymph of the Vistula reclining left in sorrowful attitude, in her left hand a shovel with which she seems to have opened a passage in the rock, water is gushing out, which, by the position of the spade, she wishes to prevent. The French standard erected in the field behind; on the left two massy rocks beside which in small letters, DENON . D; in exergue, SIGNIS VLTRA VISTVLAM / CONSTITVTIS / MDCCCVII.; on the exergue line at left, BRENET . F

Edge Description

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Significance

"After the fatal defeat of the Prussian army at Jena, his Prussian Majesty retired to Koningsberg, where he was actively employed in collecting the scattered and feeble remains of his once formidable force. The French, in the mean while, rapidly advancing, passed the Oder, took all the fortresses in their route, and at last approached the Vistula, on the banks of which they planted their exulting eagle" Laskey p.134-135

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