. NIAGARA. JULY 25. 1814. ERIE. SEP. (_September_) 17. 1814.
FUeRST. F. (_fecit_).

JACOB BROWN was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1775. He
began life as a school teacher, and afterward became a land surveyor
in Ohio. He removed to Jefferson County, New York, in 1799; was made a
colonel of New York militia, 1809; a brigadier-general of the same,
1810; and distinguished himself by his defence of Sackett's Harbor,
May 29, 1813. He was appointed a brigadier-general in the United (p. 204)
States army, July 19, 1813; major-general, January 24, 1814; and, in
the same year, commander-in-chief on the Canada frontier. In this
capacity he won the battles of Chippewa, July 5; Niagara, July 25; and
Erie, September 17. For these victories Congress gave him a vote of
thanks and a gold medal. He became commander-in-chief of the army in
1821, and died at head-quarters in Washington, February 24, 1828.

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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

_Resolutions of Congress Voting Medals to Generals Brown, Scott,
Porter, Gaines, Macomb, Ripley, and Miller._

_Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled_: That the thanks
of Congress be, and they are hereby, presented to Major General
Brown, and through him, to the officers and men of the regular
army, and of the militia under his command, for their gallantry
and good conduct in the successive battles of Chippewa, Niagara,
and Erie, in Upper Canada, in which British veteran troops were
beaten and repulsed by equal or inferior numbers; and that the
President of the United States be requested to cause a gold medal
to be struck, emblematical of these triumphs, and presented to
Major-General Brown.

_Resolved_, That the President of the United States be requested
to cause a gold medal to be struck, with suitable emblems and
devices, and presented to Major-General Scott, in testimony of
the high sense entertained by Congress of his distinguished
services in the successive conflicts of Chippewa and Niagara, and
of his uniform gallantry and good conduct in sustaining the
reputation of the arms of the United States.

_Resolved_, That the President of the United States be requested
to cause gold medals to be struck, with suitable emblems and
devices, and presented to Brigadier-General Ripley,