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However, we reserve the right to admit into the Order of the Three Golden
Fleeces, the soldiers who, having not received three wounds, would have distinguished themselves either by relaxing their eagle, or by arriving first at the breach, or by passing among the first on a bridge, or who would have
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The general will bring together the colonels and battalion commanders and have them separately present a captain, a lieutenant, a second lieutenant for
Commander and a non-commissioned officer or soldier for Knight. These presentations will be made secretly and sealed by the colonels and battalion
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Several medalists and jewelers created models; but is manufacturer
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suspended from a central motif comprising a blue stone from which departed on each side from orange sparks. This motif was topped by a crowned eagle with outstretched wings. The decoration had to be worn on a saltire by the Grand
Knights, and on the buttonhole by the Commanders and the Knights.
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commanders and addressed directly to the Grand
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With the exception of princes, great dignitaries of the Empire, the president of the Senate, ministers and ministers of state, the Order was only to be awarded during times of war to the most deserving soldiers.
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Will be my eagle with outstretched wings, holding suspended in each of its claws one of the ancient fleeces that it has removed and it will proudly show in the air, in its beak, the fleece that I institute.
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A Commander's decoration will be given to the captain, lieutenant or second lieutenant of each regiment that was part of the Grande Armée, who will be designated as the bravest in the regiment.
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pronounce on these presentations at the meeting of the great knights of the Order, which will take place each year on August 15, the day on which all promotions will be published.
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requested his admission into the Order of the Three
Fleeces of Gold, and his request, favorably received, was referred to the Grand Chancellor.
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on the Spanish throne in Madrid on 6 June 1808, and defeating
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