three featured words on
the back but they are enough.
Vincit Amor Patriae
Okay I cheated on the last line being in latin and not really fitting but its my blog my rules.
Fascinating story on the capture of Major John Andre and the treason of Benedict Arnold is presented in the article, He Foiled Benedict Arnold. His Medal Is Now Out From Under the Bed By Christopher Kuo on July 21, 2023.
As Mr. Kuo writes, the story is “… it’s a story of three regular guys that happen to be major players in national and international events,” said Jennifer Lemak, chief curator for the New York State Museum.”
All three of these regular guys received medals that are considered to be the first medals ever awarded by the United States of America.
Mr. Kuo writes: Van Wart ultimately sold his land to buy a farm and became a respected chorister in a local Presbyterian church. He died on May 23, 1828. Today, in Elmsford, a marble obelisk marks his grave and is inscribed with a lengthy phrase:
“Nearly half a century before this monument was built, the conscript fathers of America had in the Senate chamber voted that Isaac Van Wart was a faithful patriot, one in whom the love of country was invincible, and this tomb bears testimony that the record is true.”
His medal has only one prominent word on the front — Fidelity — and three featured words on the back. But they are enough.
Vincit Amor Patriae.
(Love of Country Conquers.)
The story was written on the occasion of the family who kept the medal donating it the New York Historical Society.
Sad to say it is the only medal of the three that are out there.
Seems that the other two were stolen from museums.
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