British Museum displays peace medal that Britain captured during the American Revolution

A medal struck to mark peace between the American revolutionaries and the Wabanaki Confederacy – and then nicked by the British – is now on display in the British Museum.The Washington Peace Medal is the heart of a small 250th-anniversary exhibition examining how diplomatic gifts were used by both sides of the conflict to try to win favour with Native Americans.
Commissioned by the American revolutionaries in 1777 as a diplomatic gift to the Wabanaki Confederacy, the medal later pass