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Author : William Gilkerson
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015019188187
Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Susan Sales Harkins,William H. Harkins
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Tracie Egan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : John Paul Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030037236009
Author : Keith Brandt
Publisher : Troll Communications
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000044244149
Traces the early life of the Scottish sea captain who became a hero in the American Revolution and founded the U.S. Navy.
Author : John Paul Jones,afterwards PAUL JONES PAUL (Admiral in the Russian Navy., John)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025225572
Author : James C. Bradford
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823957268
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 : John Paul Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086260650
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Admirals
ISBN : UOM:39015036767542
A biography of John Paul Jones from his early days s a ship's boy, to his naval career and activities during the Revolutionary War.
Author : Jean Boudriot
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012877687
Author : John Henry Sherburne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600001944
Author : Joseph F Callo
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612510163
Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morrison Award for Excellence in Naval Literature. This fresh look at America's first sea warrior avoids both the hero worship of the past and the recent, inaccurate deconstructionist views of John Paul Jones's astonishing life. The author goes beyond a narrow naval context to establish Jones as a key player in the American Revolution, something not done by previous biographers, and explains what drove him to his achievements. At the same time, Admiral Joseph Callo fully examines Jones's dramatic military achievements—including his improbable victory off Flamborough Head in the Continental ship Bonhomme Richard—but in the context of the times rather than as stand-alone events. The book also looks at some interesting but lesser-known aspects of Jones's naval career, including his relationships with such civilian leaders as Benjamin Franklin. How Jones handled those often-difficult dealings, Callo maintains, contributed to the nation's concept of civilian control of the military. Suggesting that Jones might well be the first U.S. apostle of sea power, the author also focuses on the fact that Jones was the first serving American naval officer who emphasized the role naval power would play in the rise of the United States as a global power. Another neglected aspect of Jones's career that gets attention and analysis is his brief tour in the Russian navy, a revealing chapter of his life that has been underreported in the two hundred years since Jones's death. Rather than looking at Jones in a rearview mirror, Callo illuminates how this unique naval hero is linked to the nation's present and future. As a result, he gives us a sea saga that tells much about our own lives and times.
Author : Armstrong Sperry
Publisher : Young Voyageur
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780760352304
This illustrated edition of John Paul Jones' biography introduces young readers to this master sea captain, and father of the U.S. Navy.
Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : HARVARD:HWR79K
