On Aug. 10, 1814, Geo. Howe Fellowes, who nailed the flag to the mast, Amos Denison, Jr., Jere. Haley, Simeon Haley, Jere. Holmes, Seth C. Leonard, Asa Lee, Thos. Wilcox, William Potter, and Hotatio G. Lewis were the defenders of the fort. In perpetuam memoriam, these two guns of eighteen pounds caliber were heroically used in repelling the attack on Stonington by the English naval vessels Ramilles, 74 guns, Pactolus, 44, Nimrod, 20, and the bomb ship Terror.