[_Victory of Lake Erie._]

JESSE D. (_Duncan_) ELLIOTT. NIL ACTUM REPUTANS SI QUID SUPERESSET
AGENDUM.[86] (_Jesse Duncan Elliott. Considering nothing done, if
aught remained to be done._) Bust of Captain Elliott, in uniform,
facing the right. FUeRST. F. (_fecit_).

[Footnote 86: Nil actum credens quum quid
superesset agendum. Lucan, Pharsalia, Book II,
657.]

VIAM INVENIT VIRTUS AUT FACIT. (_Valor finds or makes a way._) The
United States fleet on Lake Erie, carrying fifty-four guns, and
commanded by Captain Perry, stands out to meet the British fleet with
sixty-three guns, under Captain Barclay. Exergue: INTER CLASS. AMERI.
ET BRIT. DIE X. SEP. MDCCCXIII. (_Inter classim Americanam et
Britannicam, die 10 Septembris, 1813: Between the American and British
fleets, September 10, 1813._) FUeRST. F. (_fecit_).[87]

[Footnote 87: The resolution of Congress voting
this medal, and the official reports of the action
on Lake Erie, are given under No. 31, page 176.]

JESSE DUNCAN ELLIOTT was born in Maryland, July 14, 1782. He was
appointed midshipman in 1804; was promoted to be lieutenant in 1810;
served under Commodore Chauncey on the lakes in 1812; and on October
8, commanding an expedition, he cut out two British ships from under
Fort Erie. For this daring act Congress voted him a sword of honor. He
was master-commandant in July, 1813; and second in command in (p. 184)
Perry's victory on Lake Erie, for which he received from Congress a
vote of thanks and a gold medal. On Perry's departure in October,
1815, he succeeded him in command. He became captain in 1818; and
afterward commanded the Mediterranean squadron, and the navy yards of
Boston and of Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia, December 10,
1845.

No. 33. (p. 185)
PLATE XXXIV.

_February 24, 1813._

Jac Lawrence dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. [Rx].
Mansuetud. maj. quam victoria.

CAPTAIN JAMES LAWRENCE.

[_Capture of the Peacock._]

JAC. (_Jacobus_) LAWRENCE DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI[88]
(_James Lawrence. It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country._)
Bust of Captain Lawrence in uniform, facing the right. FUeRST. F.
(_fecit_).

[Footnote 88: Horace, Book II, Ode II, 13.]

MANSUETUD. MAJ. QUAM VICTORIA. (_Mansuetu