United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 11
XI. Resolution requesting the President of the United States to present a sword to Colonel Richard M. Johnson.
The President requested to present Col. Richard M. Johnson with a sword.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to present to Colonel Richard M. Johnson a sword, as a testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the daring and distinguished valour displayed by himself and the regiment of volunteers under his command, in charging, and essentially contributing to vanquish, the combined British and Indian forces, under Major General Proctor, on the Thames in Upper Canada, on the fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Approved, April 4, 1818.