John Paul Jones And The Birth Of The American Navy

Author : Sarah Crickard
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499417623

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John Paul Jones and the Birth of the American Navy by Sarah Crickard Pdf

John Paul Jones is remembered as the first hero of the young American Navy. He raided the British coast during the American Revolution, capturing or sinking more than forty enemy ships in one of the greatest naval battles in our nation’s military history. Readers will enjoy this thrilling account of the birth and growth of the American Navy, brought to life through engaging text, rich color photos, and primary source materials.

Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451603996

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John Paul Jones by Evan Thomas Pdf

The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.

Author : James C. Bradford
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823957268

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John Paul Jones and the American Navy by James C. Bradford Pdf

Presents the life and career of John Paul Jones, a naval hero of the American Revolution, who is considered called the father of the American navy.

Author : Wallace Bruce
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595242320

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John Paul Jones by Wallace Bruce Pdf

On the instructions of President Teddy Roosevelt, the preserved mortal remains of John Paul Jones were escorted back to the United States on the USS Brooklyn, surrounded by warships of the U.S. Navy, in 1905. This was a fitting tribute to the barefooted son of a Scottish gardener who, born in 1747, was destined to become the Father of the US Navy through his dogged determination and dauntless courage on the high seas. At an early age he went to sea as a cabin boy, becoming a captain in his own right at the age of twenty-one in the British merchant service. He ended up in Philadelphia and offered his services to the infant American navy, becoming its ablest and most dashing commander, raising "Old Glory" for the first time ever to the jackstaff of the USS Alfred, then attacking British ports in the US war of independence. His hour of glory was on the USS Bon Homme Richard when he engaged the Royal Navy off Flamborough Head. When all the odds were against him, and the. skipper of the HMS Serapis, Captain Pearson, demanded his surrender, his immortal reply was, "I have not yet begun to fight!" On return to the United States, he ended up supervising and launching his flagship, the USS America. This book will have you spellbound by the colorful narrative of his life.

Author : Norma Jean Lutz
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 079105702X

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John Paul Jones by Norma Jean Lutz Pdf

A biography of the well-known naval leader, John Paul Jones, from his birth in Scotland through his participation in the American Revolution to his death in Paris at the age of forty-five.

Author : John Henry Sherburne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : NYPL:33433008498127

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Life and Character of the Chevalier John Paul Jones by John Henry Sherburne Pdf

Author : Sarah Crickard
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499417593

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John Paul Jones and the Birth of the American Navy by Sarah Crickard Pdf

John Paul Jones is remembered as the first hero of the young American Navy. He raided the British coast during the American Revolution, capturing or sinking more than forty enemy ships in one of the greatest naval battles in our nation’s military history. Readers will enjoy this thrilling account of the birth and growth of the American Navy, brought to life through engaging text, rich color photos, and primary source materials.

Author : Augustus C Buell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021958220

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Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy by Augustus C Buell Pdf

This biography offers a comprehensive account of the life and career of John Paul Jones, the Scottish sailor who founded the United States Navy during the American Revolution. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including Jones's own letters and journals, Augustus Buell paints a vivid portrait of this complex and charismatic figure. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the American military or naval warfare. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Admirals
ISBN : OCLC:163960893

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John Paul Jones by Evan Thomas Pdf

Author : Augustus C. Buell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Naval biography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020009663

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Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy by Augustus C. Buell Pdf

Author : Tracie Egan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1282224077

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John Paul Jones by Tracie Egan Pdf

Author : Norma Jean Lutz
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0791053598

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John Paul Jones by Norma Jean Lutz Pdf

A biography of the well-known naval leader, John Paul Jones, from his birth in Scotland through his participation in the American Revolution to his death in Paris at the age of forty-five.

Author : John Paul Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086260650

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Life and Battles of John Paul Jones by John Paul Jones Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:464560147

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Paul Jones by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael L. Cooper
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 079225547X

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Hero of the High Seas by Michael L. Cooper Pdf

Illustrated by period artwork and photographs of historical artifacts, a biography of John Paul Jones describes how the Scots immigrant served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolution and led his men to victory over the world's greatest sea power.