- VICTORIA CROSS
- a naval and military decoration in the shape of a Maltese cross, instituted by Queen Victoria in 1856 for conspicuous bravery in the presence of an enemy.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
VICTORIA CROSS
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