 Naval General Service. One bar: THE POTOMAC 17 AUG 1814. Edge: Thomas Marriott. Extremely Fine. Once cleaned. Once nail board mounted. Replacement ribbon. Apparently original paper box of issue. Marriott was a midshipman aboard the rocketship HMS Erebus. To Lossing's account the cataloguer should add that while the bombardment of Fort Washington was an easy affair and the capture of Alexandria not much harder, the descent down the Potomac was under fire the entire way. At one point, Erebus grounded for an hour and received concentrated fire from the shore the whole time. Her commander, Captain James Gordon, was not yet 30 years old; he had lost a leg in an earlier action. The Potomac adventure fleet was composed of the frigates Sea Horse (38) and Euryalus (36), three bomb vessels, and the Erebus.
Pedigree unrecorded.
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