tus in ardua tendit. [Rx]. Victoriam hosti
majori celerrime rapuit.

CAPTAIN JACOB JONES.

[_Capture of the Frolic._]

IACOBUS JONES VIRTUS IN ARDUA TENDIT. (_Jacob Jones. Valor seeks
difficulties._) Bust of Captain Jones, in uniform, facing the right.
On edge of bust, FUeRST. F. (_fecit_).

VICTORIAM HOSTI MAJORI CELERRIME RAPUIT. (_He quickly snatched victory
from a superior enemy._) Naval action between the United States
sloop-of-war Wasp, of eighteen guns, Captain Jones, and the British
sloop-of-war Frolic, of twenty-two guns, Captain Whinyates. The Wasp
has lost her main-topmast, and is raking the Frolic as she lays her on
board. The Americans are in possession of the enemy's forecastle.
Exergue: INTER WASP NAV. AMERI. ET FROLIC NAV. ANG. DIE XVIII OCT.
MDCCCXII. (_Inter Wasp navem Americanam et Frolic navem Anglicanam,
die 18 Octobris, 1812: Between the American vessel Wasp and the
English vessel Frolic, October 18, 1812._) On the platform, FUeRST. F.
(_fecit_).

MORITZ FUeRST was born in Presburg, Hungary, and studied with Wuert, a
die sinker in the Imperial Mint of Vienna. He was for a time
superintendent of the Royal Mint of Lombardy. In 1807 he was engaged
by the American Consul at Leghorn as die sinker to the United States
Mint, arrived the same year in America, and entered on his duties in
the spring of 1808. He made nearly all the medals voted by Congress to
the army and navy for the War of 1812-1815, and the Indian medals of
Presidents Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van
Buren. He resided for many years in New York.

JACOB JONES was born near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware, in March, (p. 161)
1770. He first studied medicine, but entered the navy as midshipman in
1799, was lieutenant in 1801, was taken prisoner in the frigate
Philadelphia, off Tripoli, 1803, and remained in captivity for twenty
months. Having been commissioned as master-commandant in 1810, he was
given, in 1811, the sloop-of-war Wasp, with which he captured the
British sloop-of-war Frolic, Captain Whinyates, October 18, 1812. For
this gallant action Congress gave him a vote of thanks and a gold
medal. He became captain in 1813, and received the frigate Macedonian.
He afterward commanded squadrons in the Mediterranean and in the
Pacific; was a member of the Naval Board and governor of the Naval
Asylum in Philadelphia, where he died, August 3, 1850.

[Footnote 78: The resolution of Con