World Orders, Decorations and Medals

Cross for Pamplona 1813 and Bayonne 1814, white enamelled five-armed gold cross with ball points, gold fleurs-de-lis in the angles, surmounted by a green enamelled wreath, the obverse medallion in blue enamel with central diamond in red inscribed ‘F 7o’, surrounded by the inscription ‘Al Valor Y Disciplina’, the reverse medallion in blue enamel inscribed ‘En Pamplona Y Bayona Anos 1813 Y 1814’, extremely fine and rare

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Founded by King Ferdinand VII on 4 June, 1815, as a reward for the sieges of Pamplona in 1813, and of Bayonne, in France, in 1814.