DANIELI MORGAN DUCI EXERCITUS COMITIA AMERICANA. (_The American
Congress to General Daniel Morgan._) America, personified as an Indian
queen, standing, places with her right hand a crown of laurel upon the
head of General Morgan, while her left rests on a bow. To the left are
seen trophies of the enemy's arms; against a cannon is the American
shield, upon which lies a branch of laurel; to the right is a forest.
DUPRE, F. (_fecit_).

VICTORIA LIBERTATIS VINDEX. (_Victory, the vindicator of liberty._)
General Morgan is leading his troops, who advance with colors flying,
and put to flight the British army; in the foreground, a combat
between an Indian and a dismounted cavalry soldier. Exergue: FVGATIS
CAPTIS AVT CAESIS AD COWPENS HOSTIBVS XVII. JAN. MDCCLXXXI. (_Fugatis
captis aut caesis ad Cowpens hostibus, 17 Januarii, 1781: The enemy put
to flight, taken, or slain at the Cowpens, January 17, 1781._) DUPRE
INV ET F. (_Dupre invenit et fecit_).[40]

[Footnote 40: See INTRODUCTION, pages x, xi, xii,
xiii, xvii, xx, xxi, xxii, xxxv; B, xxxvi; D, xli;
E, xliv; and F, xlv.]

The legend of the exergue of this medal, as originally proposed by the
French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, was CAESIS AUT
CAPTIS AD COWPENS HOSTIUM * * SIGNIS RELATIS * * 17 JAN. 1781. The
change was made at the suggestion of Jefferson.

AUGUSTIN DUPRE was born in St. Etienne, France, October, 1748. (p. 041)
He began life as a workman in a manufactory of arms. In 1768 he
went to Paris as apprentice to an engraver, and became one of the most
distinguished medal engravers of the latter part of the 18th century.
Among his works are the celebrated five franc piece known as "a
l'Hercule," the five centime and one decime pieces, on which the head
of Liberty is the profile of Madame Recamier, and seven medals
relating to America: John Paul Jones, General Morgan, General Greene,
Libertas Americana, the Diplomatic medal, and two of Franklin. Dupre
was engraver-general of the Paris Mint from July, 1791, to 1801, when
he was dismissed by General Bonaparte, then first consul. He died at
Armentieres, January 31, 1833.

DANIEL MORGAN was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1736. In
early life he served as a teamster in General Braddock's army, and
afterward settled in Frederick (now Clarke) County, Virginia. In 1775
he was captain of a rifle company, and served under Washington. H