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Legend: SALUS REGIONUM SEPTENTRIONALIUM.
On the Exergue: HOSTE AD SARATOGAM IN DEDITIONEM ACCEPTO, DIE 17 OCTOBRIS, MDCCLXXVII.
The gold medal of General Greene represents the head of that general, with this legend: NATHANIELI GREEN, EGREGIO DUCI, COMITIA AMERICANA.
On the reverse: A Victory treading under feet broken arms.
Legend: SALUS REGIONUM AUSTRALIUM.
On the Exergue: HOSTIBUS APUD EUTAW DEBELLATIS, DIE 8 SEPTEMBRIS, MDCCLx.x.xI.
The medal in gold for General Morgan, and those in silver for Colonels Howard and Washington, were to be indicative of the several circ.u.mstances which attended the victory at the Cowpens on the 17th of January, 1781, in conformity to a special resolution of Congress.
It may not be foreign to the purpose to add that dies have formerly been engraved under the direction of Dr. Franklin,[20]
for striking the gold medal for General Wayne, and the silver medals for Colonels de Fleury and Stewart, emblematic of their gallant conduct in storming the works of Stony Point, sword in hand.
[Footnote 20: This is an error. The medals for General Wayne and Major Stewart were composed, at the request of Mr. Jefferson, by the French Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, in 1789. See D, page xli.]
These are all the medals voted by Congress in the course of the war.[21]
[Footnote 21: This is incorrect, as Congress voted medals to Major Lee, September 24, 1779, and to John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac Van Wart, November 3, 1780.]
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_Registre des a.s.semblees et Deliberations de l'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres pendant l'annee 1785._
Vendredi 8 avril 1785.
Monsieur le secretaire a fait part d'une lettre de Monsieur Humphreys, ancien colonel au service des etats-Unis, par laquelle il demande trois medailles pour Messieurs Washington, le general Gates et le general Green. Il envoie en meme temps des renseignements sur les actions de ces trois personnes.
L'academie a remis a huitaine pour s'occuper de ces trois medailles.
Mardi 19 avril 1785.
Apres ces differents arrangements, on s'est occupe des medailles demandees par le Congres d'Amerique, et l'on a invite messieurs les academiciens a apporter des projets pour ces medailles, a la premiere seance, dans laquelle on est convenu de nommer des commissaires pour rediger ces medailles.
Vendredi 22 avril 1785.
Monsieur Dacier a fait ensuite la lecture des projets des trois medailles pour les trois officiers generaux americains; apres les avoir bien discutes, on a nomme, pour les terminer, Messieurs Barthelemy, Dupuy, Brotier et Le Blond.
Mardi 26 avril 1785.
Monsieur Dacier, le secretaire perpetuel, lut ensuite les sujets de medailles demandees par le Congres pour trois officiers generaux.
_Pour Monsieur Washington._
D'un cote sa tete.
_Legende_: GEORGIO WASHINGTON SUPREMO DUCI EXERCITUUM ADSERTORI LIBERTATIS.
_Exergue_: COMITIA AMERICANA.
_Revers_: La prise de Boston, l'armee anglaise fuyant vers le rivage pour s'embarquer, etc.
_Legende_: HOSTIBUS OU ANGLIS PRIMUM FUGATIS.
_Exergue_: BOSTONIUM RECUPERATUM DIE 17 MARTII ANNO 1776.
_Pour Monsieur Gates._
D'un cote sa tete.
_Legende_: HORATIO GATES DUCI PROVIDO COMITIA AMERICANA.
_Revers_: Le general ennemi, a la tete de son armee, presente son epee au general Gates, a la tete de l'armee americaine.
_Legende_: SALUS PROVINCIARUM SEPTENTRIONALIUM.
_Exergue_: HOSTE AD SARATOGAM IN DEDITIONEM ACCEPTO DIE 17 8{bris} 1777.
_Pour Monsieur Green._
D'un cote sa tete.
_Legende_: NATHANIELI GREEN EGREGIO DUCI COMITIA AMERICANA.
_Revers_: La Victoire foulant aux pieds des armes brisees.
_Legende_: SALUS PROVINCIARUM AUSTRALIUM.
