Author: John Paul JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones
Author: John Paul JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones
Author: Paul Jones John Paul JonesPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429021519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Chevalier of the Military Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne, &c., &c
Author: John Paul JonesJohn Paul Jones
Author: Joseph F CalloPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612510167
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Chevalier of the Military Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne, Etc., Etc
Author: John Paul JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
John Paul Jones
Author: Samuel Eliot MorisonPublisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781557504104
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Chevalier of the Military Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne
Author: John Paul JonesLife of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones : Chevalier of the Military Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne... : Compiled from His Original Journals and Correspondence : Including an Account of His Services in the American Revolution and in the War Between the Russians and Turks in the Black Sea
Author: John Paul JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
John Paul Jones
Author: Evan ThomasPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451603991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones
Author: John S. C. AbbottPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This is a biography of a man named John Paul Jones. He was a Scottish-American naval captain who was the United States' first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War. He made many friends among U.S political elites (including John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin) as well as enemies (who accused him of piracy), and his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation that persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the American Navy" (a nickname he shares with John Barry and John Adams).