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Yatay Medal
Yatay Medal
	Image of the obverse of the second class medal.
Type	Military decoration
Awarded for	Participating in the victory of the Vanguard Army of the allies under the command of Venancio Flores against the forces of Paraguayan Pedro Duarte
Country	Uruguay
Presented by	the Minister of War and Navy
Eligibility	Allied military personnel who took part in the Battle of Yatay
Campaign(s)	Battle of Yatay
Motto	Vencedores del Yatay
Status	No longer awarded
Established	30 September 1865

The Yatay Medal was an Uruguayan military decoration granted by the Uruguayan government to honor the Uruguayan allied forces who participated in the Battle of Yatay, part of the Paraguayan War.^[1]^[2]

Characteristics

It was minted by Juan Welker in Montevideo. The oval-shaped medal is of 34 by 28.5 millimeters (with a variant of 33.5 by 28.5 millimeters),^[3] on whose obverse it depicts the text "Vencedores del Yatay" ("Victorious in Yatay") and on its reverse the text "17 de Agosto de 1865" ("17 August 1865"), trimmed around it with two branches of laurel. It was coined in gold for Chiefs, in silver for Officers and in copper for the troop.^[1]^[2]

The medal hangs from a white and sky-blue ribbon, and it was placed on the chest.^[1] This decoration also was granted along with a diploma.^[3]^[2]

Ranks

The decoration had three ranks:^[1]

Chiefs, in gold
Officers, in silver
the Troop, in copper

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Armand Ugón, E.; Cerdeiras Alonso, J. C.; Arcos Ferrand, L.; Goldaracena, C., eds. (1930). "LEY N.° 829. YATAY. Se les concede una medalla de honor a los individuos que tomaron parte en esta batalla". Compilación de leyes y decretos (in Spanish). Vol. VI. Montevideo. pp. 458–459. Retrieved 15 April 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c Otero, Alicia B.; Olivero, José M. "Una breve reseña de las condecoraciones del Ejército Nacional" (in Spanish). Departamento de Estudios Históricos del Estado Mayor del Ejército. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Medallas de la Campaña del Paraguay 1864 a 1870, Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay" (PDF). Guanín (in Spanish). I (1). Guidaí Institute: 4–16. June 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2021. Translated from an article published in the Revista Clube da Medalha do Brasil, IV (10), Casa da Moneda do Brasil, 1 September 1996.