round, the mounted
riflemen are charging the enemy. Exergue: RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS APRIL
4. 1818. FUeRST. F. (_fecit_).[108]

[Footnote 108: The resolution of Congress voting
this medal and the official reports of the Battle
of the Thames are given under No. 50, page 254.]

ISAAC SHELBY was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, December 11, 1750. He
served in the South throughout the Revolutionary War, rose to the rank
of colonel, and displayed great gallantry in the battle of King's
Mountain, October 7, 1780, for which he received a sword of honor and
thanks from the Legislature of North Carolina. He was governor of
Kentucky, 1792-1796, and 1812-1816; he joined General Harrison with
four thousand Kentucky volunteers, and distinguished himself in the
battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813, for which victory Congress gave
him a vote of thanks and a gold medal. He declined to be secretary of
War in 1817, and died in Lincoln County, Kentucky, July 18, 1826.

No. 52. (p. 266)
PLATE LIII.

_June 24, 1822._

Lvdovicvs. XVIII Franc. et. Nav. rex. [Rx]. Gallia. et. America.
foederata.

TREATY OF COMMERCE WITH FRANCE.

LVDOVICVS. XVIII FRANC. ET. NAV. REX. (_Ludovicus XVIII. Franciae et
Navarrae rex: Louis XVIII, King of France and Navarre._) Bust of Louis
the Eighteenth, facing the right DE PUYMAURIN DIREXIT[109]
(_directed_). On edge of bust, ANDRIEU. F. (_fecit_).

[Footnote 109: De Puymaurin was director of the
Paris Mint at the time this medal was struck.]

GALLIA. ET. AMERICA. FOEDERATA. (_France and America allied._) France
and America, personified as two female figures, standing, leaning on a
column, on which is a bust of Mercury. France, beside whom is a shield
bearing the three fleurs de lis, holds in her right hand a cornucopia,
and America rests her left hand on the prow of a galley; on the face
of the column is engraved: MDCCCXXII (1822). Exergue: NOVIS.
COMMERCIORVM. PACTIS IVNCTAE (_United by new treaties of
commerce._) GAYRARD. F. (_fecit_).[110]

[Footnote 110: See INTRODUCTION, pages x and
xxiii.]

BERTRAND ANDRIEU was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1762. He studied
first at the academy of Bordeaux, then with Lavaux. He came to Paris
early in life. Among his principal medals are: the taking of the