DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDAL.

OCCASION.--Capture of the British sloop of war Frolic.

DEVICE.--Bust of Captain Jones.

LEGEND.--Jacobus Jones, virtus in ardua tendit.

REVERSE.--Two ships closely engaged, the bowsprit of the Wasp between

the mast of the Frolic; men engaged on the bow of the Wasp while in the

act of boarding the Frolic; the main-topmast of the Wasp shot away.

LEGEND.--Victoriam hosti Majori celerrime rapuit.

EXERGUE.--Inter Wasp nav. Ameri. et Frolic nav. Ang. die 18th Oct.

1812.

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