DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDAL._Memoirs of the Generals, Commodores and other Commanders, who distinguished themselves in the American army and navy during the wars of the Revolution and 1812, and who were presented with medals by Congress for their gallant services

OCCASION.--Capture of the English frigate Serapis, Captain Pearson, by

the Bon Homme Richard, Captain John Paul Jones.

DEVICE.--Head of John Paul Jones.

LEGEND.--Joanni Paulo Jones classis prefecto comitia Americana.

REVERSE.--Two frigates engaged yard-arm and yard-arm; the English ship

severely battered in the sides. Another ship lying across the bow of

the British frigate.

LEGEND.--Hostium navibus captis aut frigatis.

EXERGUE.--Ad nam Scotiæ, 23d September, 1778.

[Illustration: Plate 9.

_W. L. Ormsby, sc._]

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