OCCASION.--Taking the fort of Stony Point.
DEVICE.--A soldier helmeted and standing against the ruins of a fort:
his right hand extended, holding a sword upright: the staff of a stand
of colors reversed in his left: the colors under his feet: his right
knee drawn up, as if in the act of stamping on them.
LEGEND.--Virtutis et audiciæ monum, et præmium D. De Fleury equiti
gallo primo muros resp. Americ. d. d.
REVERSE.--Two water batteries, three guns each: one battery firing at
a vessel: a fort on a hill: flag flying: river in front: six vessels
before the fort.
LEGEND.--Aggeres paludes hostes victi.
EXERGUE.--Stony Pt. expugn. 15th July, 1779.