of the Cowpens, are given under No. 8, page 40.]

WILLIAM AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON, a distant relation of General
Washington's, was born in Stafford County, Virginia, February 28,
1752. He was educated for the church, but entered the army as captain
of infantry, and fought in the battles of Long Island, Trenton, and
Princeton. In 1778 he was lieutenant-colonel of dragoons, and served
in the South under Generals Lincoln, Greene, and Morgan. He
distinguished himself at the victory of the Cowpens, for which he (p. 047)
received from Congress a silver medal; was made a prisoner at Eutaw
Springs, and remained in captivity in Charleston, South Carolina, till
the close of the war, when he settled in that city. He served for some
time in the South Carolina Legislature; was appointed on General
Washington's staff with the rank of brigadier-general, in 1797, and
died in Charleston, March 6, 1810.

No. 10. (p. 048)
PLATE X.

_January 17, 1781._

Joh. Egar Howard legionis peditum praefecto Comitia Americana.
[Rx]. Quod in nutantem hostium aciem, etc.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN EAGER HOWARD.

[_Victory of the Cowpens._]

JOH. (_Johanni_) EGAR. (_sic_) HOWARD LEGIONIS PEDITUM PRAEFECTO
COMITIA AMERICANA. (_The American Congress to John Eager Howard,
commander of a regiment of infantry._) Lieutenant-Colonel Howard, on
horseback, is in pursuit of a foot-soldier of the enemy who is
carrying away a standard. A winged Victory hovers over him, holding in
her right hand a crown of laurel, and in her left a palm branch.
DUVIV. (_Duvivier_).

Within a crown of laurel: QUOD IN NUTANTEM HOSTIUM ACIEM SUBITO
IRRUENS PRAECLARUM BELLICAE VIRTUTIS SPECIMEN DEDIT IN PUGNA AD COWPENS
XVII. JAN. (_Januarii_) MDCCLXXXI. (_Because by rushing suddenly on
the wavering lines of the enemy, he gave a brilliant example of
martial courage at the battle of the Cowpens, January 17,
1781_).[43],[44]

[Footnote 43: See INTRODUCTION, pages x, xi, xii,
xvii, xxiii, xxviii, xxxv; B, xxxvi; G, xlv; and H,
xlvii.]

[Footnote 44: The resolution of Congress voting
this medal, and the official report of the battle
of the Cowpens, are given under No. 8, page 40.]

JOHN EAGER HOWARD was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, June 4,
1752. On the breaking out of the Revol