right. FUeRST. F.
(_fecit_).

[Footnote 92: Virgil, AEneid, Book I, 464.]

UNO LATERE PERCUSSO. ALTERUM IMPAVIDE VERTIT. (_Beaten on one side, he
fearlessly turns the other._) Naval action on Lake Champlain, between
the United States fleet, carrying eighty-six guns, under the command
of Captain Macdonough, and the British fleet, with ninety-five guns,
commanded by Commodore Downie. To the right the city of Plattsburgh in
flames. Exergue: INTER CLASS. AMERI. ET BRIT. DIE XI SEPT. MDCCCXIIII.
(_Inter classim Americanam et Britannicam, die 11 Septembris, 1814:
Between the American and British fleets, September 11, 1814._) On the
platform, FUeRST. F. (_fecit_).[93]

[Footnote 93: The resolution of Congress voting
this medal, and the official reports of the action
on Lake Champlain, are given under No. 34, page
189.]

STEPHEN CASSIN was born in Philadelphia, February 16, 1783. He (p. 196)
entered the navy as a midshipman in 1800, served in the Tripolitan
campaign, and became a lieutenant in 1807. He commanded the
Ticonderoga in Macdonough's victory on Lake Champlain, September 11,
1814, and for his conduct on that occasion was promoted to the rank of
master, and received a vote of thanks and a gold medal from Congress.
He was made captain, March 3, 1825, commanded for some time the navy
yard at Washington, District of Columbia, and died there, April 29,
1857.

No. 37. (p. 197)
PLATE XXXVIII.

_March 29, 1814._

Ludovicus Warrington dux navalis Ameri. [Rx]. Pro patria paratus
aut vincere aut mori.

CAPTAIN LEWIS WARRINGTON.

[_Capture of the Epervier._]

LUDOVICUS WARRINGTON DUX NAVALIS AMERI. (_Americanus_) (_Lewis
Warrington, American naval commander._) Bust of Captain Warrington, in
uniform, facing the right. FUeRST. F. (_fecit_).

PRO PATRIA PARATUS AUT VINCERE AUT MORI. (_Prepared to conquer or die
for his country._) Naval action between the United States sloop-of-war
Peacock, of eighteen guns, Captain Warrington, and the British
brig-of-war Epervier, of eighteen guns, Captain Wales; the Peacock, to
leeward, is firing her port broadside. The Epervier has lost her
main-topmast Exergue: INTER PEACOCK NAV. AMERI ET EPERVIE (_sic_) NAV.
ANG. DIE XXIX MAR. MDCCCXIV. (_Inter Peacock navem Americanam et
Epervier navem Anglicanam, die 29 Ma