Excerpt from A Historical Sketch of the National Medals Issued Pursuant to Resolution of Congress, 1776-1815: A Paper Read Before "the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, " Thursday Evening, November 1 and 15, 1866I propose to read before the Society this evening, a brief memoir of the National Medals awarded by Congress during the Revolutionary War, the quasi French War, and the War of 1812. This idea suggested itself to me, by reading in the Evening Bulletin last week, an article copied from the New York Sun, on this same subject, but this article was so full of blunders and gross and ridiculous errors, that it was calculated more to mislead than to direct any one in the pursuit of their investigations. They number forty-one.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.