DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDAL.

OCCASION.--Capture of the French frigate La Vengeance.

DEVICE.--Head of Captain Truxtun.

LEGEND.--Patriæ patris filio digno Thomæ Truxtun.

REVERSE.--Two ships of war, the French a two decker; both much

shattered; the rigging of both much cut up.

LEGEND.--The United States frigate Constellation, of thirty-eight

guns, pursues, attacks, and vanquishes the French ship La Vengeance, of

fifty-four guns, 1st of Feb. 1800.

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