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Congressional Gold Medal Recipients
Winfield Scott, Jacob Brown, Eleazar W. Ripley, James Miller, Peter B. Porter, Edmund P. Gaines and Alexander Macomb
Winfield Scott b. Laurel Branch, near Petersburg, Fauquier, Virginia, 13 June 1786
d. West Point, Orange, New York, 29 May 1866
Jacob Brown b. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 9 May 1775
d. Washington, D.C., 24 February 1828
Eleazar W. Ripley b. Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, 15 April 1782
d. West Feliciana, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2 March 1839
James Miller b. Peterboro County, New Hampshire, 25 April 1776
d. Temple, Hillsboro, New Hampshire, 7 July 1851
Peter B. Porter b. Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, 4 August 1773
d. Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, 20 March 1844
Edmund P. Gaines b. Culpeper County, Virginia, 20 March 1777
d. New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, 6 June 1849
Alexander Macomb b. Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, 3 April 1782
d. Washington, D.C., 25 June 1841
Thursday, 3 November 1814 Resolutions, expressive of the sense of Congress, of the gallantry and good conduct with which the reputation of the arms of the United States has been sustained by Major General Brown, Major General Scott, Major General Porter, Major General Gaines, Major General Macomb, and Brigadiers 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, Brigadier General Miller and major General Porter, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of their gallantry and good conduct in the several conflicts of Chippewa, Niagara and Erie. Resolved, That the thanks of Congress be, and they are hereby presented to Major General Gaines, and, through him, to the officers and men under his command, for their gallantry and good conduct, in defeating the enemy at Erie on the fifteenth of August: repelling, with great slaughter, the attack of a British veteran army, superior in number, and that the President of the United States be requested to cause a gold medal to be struck, emblematical of this triumph, and presented to Major General Gaines. Resolved, That the thanks of Congress be, and they are hereby presented to Major General Macomb, and, through him, to the officers and men of the regular army under his command, and to the militia and volunteers of New York and Vermont, for their gallantry and good conduct, in defeating the enemy at Plattsburg on the eleventh of September; repelling, with one thousand five hundred men, aided by a body of militia and volunteers from New York and Vermont, a British veteran army, greatly superior in number, and that the President of the United States be requested to cause a gold medal to be struck, emblematical of this triumph, and presented to Major General Macomb. 3 Stat. 247
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