[Capture of the Boxer.]
EDWARD R. (Rutledge) McCALL NAVIS ENTERPRISE (sic) PRÆFECTUS. SIC ITUR AD ASTRA.[81] (Edward Rutledge McCall, Commander of the vessel Enterprize. Thus one attains glory.) Bust of Lieutenant McCall, in uniform, facing the right. FÜRST. F. (fecit).
VIVERE SAT VINCERE. (To conquer is to live enough.) Naval engagement between the United States brig-of-war Enterprize, of fourteen guns, Lieutenant-Commander Burrows, and the British brig-of-war Boxer, of fourteen guns, Captain Blythe. The Enterprize is raking the Boxer, fore and aft. The latter has lost her main-topmast. Exergue: INTER ENTERPRIZE NAV. AMERI. ET BOXER NAV. BRIT.[82] DIE IV SEPT. MDCCCXIII. (Inter Enterprize navem Americanam et Boxer navem Britannicam, die 4 Septembris, 1813: Between the American vessel Enterprize and the British vessel Boxer, September 4, 1813.) FÜRST. F. (fecit).
Edward Rutledge McCall was born in Charleston, South Carolina, August 5, 1790. He entered the navy in January, 1808. In 1813 he was first lieutenant of the Enterprize, under Lieutenant Burrows, in the action with the Boxer, took the command after that officer fell, and captured the British vessel, for which gallant deed Congress gave him a vote of thanks and a gold medal. He afterward served in the Mediterranean under Commodore Perry, was promoted to the rank of master-commandant in 1825, and to that of captain in 1835. He died in Bordentown, New Jersey, July 31, 1853.
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
Resolution of Congress Voting Medals to Lieutenants McCall, Burrows, etc.