1789, Austro-Turkish War. The Capture of Belgrade Medal

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1789, Austro-Turkish War. The Capture of Belgrade MedalDedicated to the Victory of Field Marshal Laudon. R! Ruler: Joseph II Mint Year: 1789 Medallist: J C Reich Condition: about XF! Reference: Würzbach 4879; BDM V, 71. Material: white metal with copper plug Diameter: 48mm Weight: 36.25gm Obverse: Field-Marshal Laudon as an equestrian knight with cityscape of Belgrade with miltary tents infront of city walls. Legend: DORT HERR U GIDEON LAUDON HIR U BELGRAT FÄLT Exergue: BELGRAT D 8 OCT 1789 Comment: On all the spire of the buildings is the crescent moon of the Ottoman empire Reverse: Bust of the General wearing uniform, his hair tied in a queue . Latin Legend: LAUDON K K GENERAL FELD MARSCHAL The Capture of Belgrade was fought during the last Austro-Turkish War (1787–1791). The Austrian troops accompanied by many Serbian volunteers struggled to capture the city. In September 1789 general Laudon was requested. Though old and broken in health, he was commander-in-chief in fact as well as in name, and in 1789 he won a last brilliant success by capturing Belgrade in three weeks. Authenticity Unconditionally guaranteed! Bid with confidence! Baron Ernst Gideon von Laudon (German: Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon (originally Laudohn or Loudon ) (February 2, 1717 in Tootzen, now Latvia – July 14, 1790 in Nový Jič�n, now Czech Republic) was an Austrian field marshal, one of the most successful commanders of the 18th century, allegedly lauded by Suvorov as his teacher.Family of Laudohn, of mixed German, Latgallian and Scottish origin, had been settled in estate of Tootzen, near Ļaudona in Eastern Latvia, before 1432. His father Otto Gerhard von Laudohn was a lieutenant-colonel, retired on a meagre pension from the Swedish service, and the boy was sent in 1732 into the Russian army as a cadet. He took part in Field Marshal Munnich's siege of Gdańsk in 1734, in the march of a Russian corps to the Rhine in 1735 and in the Turkish campaign.Dissatisfied with his prospects he resigned in 1741 and sought military employment elsew He applied first to Frederick the Great, who declined his services. At Vienna he had better fortune, being made a captain in Trenck's free corps. He took part in its forays and marches, though not in its atrocities, until wounded and taken prisoner in Alsace. He was shortly released by the advance of the main Austrian army.His next active service, still under Trenck, was in the Silesian mountains in 1745, in which campaign he greatly distinguished himself as a leader of light troops. He was present also at Soor. He retired shortly afterwards, owing to his distaste for the lawless habits of his comrades in the irregulars, and after long waiting in poverty for a regular commission he was at last made a captain in one of the frontier regiments, spending the next ten years in half-military, half-administrative work in the Carlstadt district. At Bunich, w he was stationed, he built a church and planted an oak forest now called by his name. He had reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel when the outbreak of the Seven Years' War called him again into the field. From this point began his fame as a soldier. Soon promoted colonel, he distinguished himself repeatedly and was in 1757 made a Generalfeldwachtmeister (major-general of cavalry) and a knight of the newly founded Maria Tsia Order.In the campaign of 1758 came his first opportunity for fighting an action as a commander-in-chief, and he used it so well that Frederick the Great was obliged to give up the siege of Olomouc and retire into Bohemia (Battle of Domašov, June 30). He was rewarded with the grade of lieutenant-field-marshal and having again shown himself an active and daring commander in the campaign of Hochkirch, he was created a Freiherr in the Austrian nobility by Maria Tsa and in the peerage of the Holy Roman Empire by her husband the emperor Francis. Maria Tsa gave him, furth... read more

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