DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDAL.

OCCASION.--Capture of the British frigate Macedonian.

DEVICE.--A bust of Captain Decatur.

LEGEND.--Stephanus Decatur Navarchus pugnis pluribus victor.

REVERSE.--Two ships engaged; the topmasts of one shot away, the other

with a few shot only in her sails.

LEGEND.--Occidit signum hostile sidera surgunt.

EXERGUE.--Inter sta. uni. nav. Amer. et Macedo. nav. Ang. die 25th

Octobris, 1812.

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