DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDAL.

OCCASION.--Capture of the British frigate Java.

DEVICE.--A bust of Captain Bainbridge.

LEGEND.--Gulielmus Bainbridge patria victisque laudatus.

REVERSE.--A ship with three stumps only of her masts standing; the

American ship with but a few shot holes in her sails.

LEGEND.--Pugnando.

EXERGUE.--Inter Const. nav. Ameri. et Java nav. Angl. 29th December,

1812.

[Illustration: Plate 11.

_W. L. Ormsby, sc._]

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