DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDAL.

OCCASION.--Attack on Paulus Hook.

DEVICE.--Bust of Colonel Lee.

LEGEND.--Henrico Lee, equit præfecto.

EXERGUE.--Comitia Americana.

REVERSE.--Non obstantib fluminibus, vallis astutia et virtute

bellica, parva manu hostes vicit victosq. Armis humanitate devinxit. In

men. pugn. ad Paulus Hook, 19th August, 1779. (_See_ Plate IV.)

[Illustration: Plate 5.

_W. L. Ormsby, sc._]

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