Author: Thomas ChasePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Sketches of the Life, Character and Times of Paul Jones
Author: Thomas ChaseSketches of the Lives of Remarkable and Celebrated Characters, Consisting Chiefly of Those who Have Distinguished Themselves in the Last and During the American War, Etc
Author: SKETCHES.Paul Jones
Author: Don Carlos SeitzPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Paul Jones, His Exploits in English Seas During 1778-1780
Author: Don Carlos SeitzPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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John Paul Jones
Author: Lincoln LorenzPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612514723
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This is the true life story of the Scottish gardener’s son, John Paul, who became America’s greatest naval hero, John Paul Jones. British midshipman, African slaver, traveling actor, merchant captain, accused of murder and suspected of freebooting—this was John Paul. Captain in Washington’s Continental Navy, raider of the British coasts and victor in one of history’s most desperate naval battles, lion of the French court and beloved by beautiful women, Russian admiral under Catherine the Great, and dead at 45, neglected by his adopted United States, his very grave lost for a hundred years—that was John Paul Jones.
The Life and Character of John Paul Jones, a Captain in the United States Navy
Author: John Henry SherburnePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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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.
A Contribution to the Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy
Author: Agnes C. DoylePublisher: Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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General Index to the American Statesmen Series
Author: Theodore Clarke SmithPublisher:
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Category : American statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
General Index to the American Statesmen Series with a Selected Bibliography
Author: Theodore Clarke SmithPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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