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Description: Two Clasp Naval General Service Medal of Commander Richard Morgan Present at the Boat Service Action in New Orleans 14th December 1814 on HMS Tonnant, The Ship with Connections to the American National Anthem “Star Spangled Banner”, fine example with clasps St Domingo and 14 Dec Boat Service 1814, the medal was awarded to “RICHARD MORGAN”, no rank noted on the medal. Remains in very good overall condition. “Richard Morgan entered the Navy, 15 April 1805, as Fst-cl Vol, on board the Prevoyante store ship, Master-Commander Dan McCoy, and, after serving for a few months off Gibraltar and Cadiz in that vessel and the Colossus 74, Capt Jas Nicoll Morris, joined the Canopus 80, successive flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Sir Thos Louis, Geo. Martin, and Chas Boyles. Under the first mentioned of those officers he accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain, enacted a part in the action off St Domingo 6 Geb 1806, assisted as Midshipman at the capture, 27 Sept following, of the French frigate Le President, and after attending Sir John Duckworth’s expedition to Constantinople in Feb 1807, assumed as share in the ensuing operations in Egypt. Under Rear-Admiral Martin, he joined, in Oct 1809, in the pursuit which led to the self-destruction, off Cette, of the French ships-of-the-line Robust and Lion. Removing, in Sept 1811, to the Achille 74, Capt Aiskew Paffard Hollis, he was for about 18 months employed in that ship in the Adriatic, where he aided in blockading the French and Venetian squadrons at Venice, consisting of three line-of-battle ships and a frigate ready for sea, and several of each class fitting in the arsenal. In Feb 1814, having returned with convoy to England, and been for a short time engaged at the blockade of Cherbourg, he became Master’s Mate of the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag of Lord Keith in the Channel, whence, in the course of the same year, he sailed for North America with Rear-Admiral Pulteney Malcolm in the Royal Oak 74. After witnessing, as Supernumerary-Midshipman on promotion of the Tonnant 80, flagship of Hon Sir Alex Cochrane, the attack on New Orleans, he was nominated, 19 May, 1815, Acting Lieutenant of the Belle Poule troop-ship, Capt Fras Baker. On his arrival home in the ensuing summer he found that he has been officially advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 6 of the preceding Feb. His succeeding appointments were 19 May 1818, to the Queen Charlotte 100, flagship of Sir Geo Campbell at Portsmouth, where he served until paid off in 1821 – 30 April, 1827, to the Britannia 120, bearing the flag of the Earl of Northesk at Plymouth – 22 Sept 1828, and 28 April 1830, to the Asia 84, and Britannia again, in which ships he continued employed in the Mediterranean and North Sea, under the flag of Sir P Malcolm, until the close of 1831- and 8 March 1833, a third time, to Britannia, as Flag-Lieutenant to the last-mentioned officer in the Mediterranean. He attained his present rank 23 April, 1834; and from 29 March, 1837, until the spring of 1840, officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half pay.” Richard Morgan is on the St Domingo roll as an Ordinary Seaman, serving on HMS Canopus, an 84 gun ship of the line which was heavily involved during the Battle of St Domingo. He is listed as a Supny Midshipman on HMS Tonnant, an 80 gun ship of the line, for the 14th December 1814 Boat Action during the American War of 1812. HMS Tonnant joined the War of 1812 late. She was fitted for sea in the first quarter of 1814, being recommissioned in January under Captain Alexander Skene. In October Captain Charles Kerr assumed command as Tonnant served as the flagship for Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane during most of the campaign in Chesapeake Bay. From her he directed attacks on Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. It was aboard Tonnant that the Americans, Colonel John Stuart Skinner and Francis Scott Key, dined with Vice