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Author : Jean Boudriot
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012877687
Author : Jean Boudriot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : United States
ISBN : 2903178208
Author : Mark Lardas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849087865
The clash between the American Bonhomme Richard and the British HMS Serapis during the American Revolutionary War is perhaps the most famous single-ship duel in history. This epic battle between two very similar ships – and crews – off the coast of Britain in September 1779 created two naval heroes: in victory, John Paul Jones became a figure that all future American naval officers would aspire to emulate, while Richard Pearson, in defeat, became a hero to the British for a tenacious defence that allowed the merchant vessels under his protection to escape. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this is the story of an epic maritime clash at the height of the Revolutionary War that provided a founding legend for generations of US naval officers and demonstrated the intrepidity and fighting prowess of the fledgling US Navy.
Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451603996
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 : Scott Waldman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0823943631
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Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Admirals
ISBN : 1557504105
This 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning book vividly portrays the illustrious career of John Paul Jones, from his early training at sea in the British West Indian merchant trade to his command in the newly independent American Navy and his eventual award of flag status.
Author : William Gilkerson
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015019188187
Author : W. M. Rhodes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1078268959
The American Revolutionary War produced one of the most famous and ferocious sea-battles of all time. This epic battle fought on the East Coast of Britain on 23rd September 1779, between two similar ships The Bonhomme Richard for the Americans with its captain the notorious John Paul Jones who had deserted his native Scotland to fight for the Americans in their new fledgling American Navy, against the English ship Serapis and its captain Richard Pearson.The sound of gunfire alerted many residents along the Yorkshire Coast, many of whom left their houses to witness this most renowned sea-fight. This book is a brief account of Captain John Paul Jones, Sir Richard Pearson, and the battle of the Bonhomme Richard.
Author : Todd Andrlik,Don N. Hagist
Publisher : Journal of the American Revolu
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1594162786
The fourth annual compilation of selected articles from the online Journal of the American Revolution.
Author : John Henry Sherburne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:$B60522
Author : Susan Sales Harkins,William H. Harkins
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781545749968
When we think of bravery at sea, we can't help thinking of John Paul Jones. Numerous times, the enemy outgunned him, but he outthought them and outmaneuvered them. Born in Scotland to servants, going to sea as a young boy was an opportunity to change his place in life, something rarely accomplished in the mid-1700s. From the son of a gardener, he rose to the rank of commodore of the newly established Continental Navy of the United States of America. When he wasn't capturing enemy ships, he was charming the ladies of American and French society. So great was his reputation that Catherine the Great in far-off Russia sent for him to run her navy. Joness victories made him one of the greatest American heroes.
Author : Jamey Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1640710590
Author : Tracie Egan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 082394185X
Profiles John Paul Jones, who served during the Revolutionary War and is credited with founding the United States Navy.
Author : Jamey M. Long
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781620243435
'I have not yet begun to fight!' were the immortal words shouted by John Paul Jones in his epic battle against the British warship the Serapis. Join the boy and a curious little possum named Opie as they sail with John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard and lead America's Continental Navy into battle against Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. Relive all of the honor, glory, and victory on the high seas with Opie inA Possum's I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight: John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard.
Author : John Paul Jones
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Admirals
ISBN : 9780898751901
The revolutionary career of John Paul Jones, which is the subject of this memoir, needs no elaboration here. His voyages, first on the Alfred under Capt. Dudley Saltonstall, and later at the helm of the sloops Providence, Ranger and Ariel, the old East Indiaman Duras (renamed the Bonhomme Richard), and the American-built frigate Alliance are thoroughly recounted here. What is generally not known, however, is the commodore's post-revolutionary war career. Having made numerous inveterate enemies during the course of the war, both in and out of Congress, Jones had little chance of gaining flag rank in the American navy. Realizing this, he decided in the spring of 1788 to pursue fame in other waters, first in the service of Louis XVI of France and later under Catherine the Great of Russia. France, unfortunately, was in no position to expand its naval staff, but Catherine, who was in need of good officers to fight in the second Russo-Turkish war, offered him an admiral's commission in the Russian navy, and on May 26, 1788, Rear Admiral Jones raised his flag on the Black Sea. Anyone familiar with the life of John Paul Jones, one of America's most popular naval heroes, would agree that in fighting spirit the commodore was perhaps equal to any officer in the history of the United States Navy. Unquestionably, he was deserving of the belated tribute paid to him by President Theodore Roosevelt on April 24, 1906, at the formal reception at Annapolis of the body of Capt. Paul Jones, as the hero was known at the height of his career. President Roosevelt admonished an audience of naval officers and cadets, statesmen and visiting dignitaries: "Every officer in our Navy should know by heart the deeds of John Paul Jones. Every officer in our Navy should feel in each fiber of his being an eager desire to emulate the energy, the professional capacity, the indomitable determination and dauntless scorn of death which marked John Paul Jones above all his fellows."
