Item: i115020

Authentic Medal of:

United States of America
U.S. Mint – America’s First Medals 1973 Re-strike
American Revolution Battles – General Anthony Wayne
1973 Pewter Medal 38mm (20.70 grams)
Reference: U.S. Mint Cf N# 237690
ANTONIO WAYNE DUCI EXERCITUS GATTEAUX. COMITIA AMERICANA, Female left with crown in one hand handing wreath to General Wayne right.
STONEY-POINT EXPUGNATUM GATTEAUX XV JUL.MDCCLXXIX, Battle scene ahead of fort.

Medal Notes:
Part of the Treasury Department’s Bicentennial program reissues of the first medals voted by the Continental Congress to honor the bold commanders and successful Revolutionary War battles that won for a new nation its freedom and independence.

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Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796) was an American soldier, officer, statesman, and Founding Father of English descent. He adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him promotion to brigadier general and the nickname “Mad Anthony“. He later served as the Senior Officer of the Army on the Ohio Country frontier and led the Legion of the United States.

Wayne was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and worked as a tanner and surveyor after attending the College of Philadelphia. He was elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly and helped raise a Pennsylvania militia unit in 1775. During the Revolutionary War, he served in the Invasion of Quebec, the Philadelphia campaign, and the Yorktown campaign. Although his reputation suffered after defeat in the Battle of Paoli, he won wide praise for his leadership in the 1779 Battle of Stony Point. After being promoted to major general in 1783, he retired from the Continental Army soon after. Anthony Wayne was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of the state of Georgia. In 1780, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

After the war, Wayne settled in Georgia on the Richmond and Kew plantation that had been granted to him for his military service, with Wayne using slaves to manage his plantation. He briefly represented Georgia in the United States House of Representatives where he faced controversy relating to his participation in electoral fraud. Following his financial failures in Georgia, Wayne returned to the Army to accept command of U.S. forces in the Northwest Indian War, where he defeated the Northwestern Confederacy, an alliance of several Native American tribes aided by the British. Following the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers and a subsequent scorched earth campaign of destroying villages, he later negotiated the Treaty of Greenville which ended the war. His victory during the Northwest Indian War resulted in the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans in the Ohio Valley, and helped pave the way for the future westward expansion of the United States and manifest destiny. As an early American military leader, the future survival of the nation played a significant motivating factor in his Northwest Territory expedition against the British and Native Americans.

Wayne’s legacy is controversial, with his skills as a military leader criticized, and in recent years, his actions against Native Americans and ownership of slaves facing scrutiny.

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