Small U.S. Mint Medals
Major Henry Lee, America’s First Medals, Pewter

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Translation from Latin:
Obverse, “The American Congress to Henry Lee, major of cavalry.”
Reverse, “Notwithstanding rivers and ramparts, he conquered, with a handful of men, the enemy by skill and valor, and attached by his humanity those vanquished by his arm. In commemoration of the Battle of Paulus Hook, August 19, 1779.”