Download or read book The Ships of John Paul Jones written by William Gilkerson and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Evan Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book John Paul Jones and the American Navy written by James C. Bradford and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-08-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard written by Jean Boudriot and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Paul Jones Hero of the Seas written by Keith Brandt and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the early life of the Scottish sea captain who became a hero in the American Revolution and founded the U.S. Navy.
Download or read book Hero of the High Seas written by Michael L. Cooper and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Tracie Egan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles John Paul Jones, who served during the Revolutionary War and is credited with founding the United States Navy.
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Joseph F Callo and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Liz Sonneborn and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Paul Jones joined the Continental Navy to help the colonies in their war against the British. After his superior skills became apparent, he was made a captain.
Download or read book Life of John Paul Jones written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Brenda Haugen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life of the sea captain, John Paul Jones and describes his role in the Revolutionary War.
Download or read book Life of Rear Admiral John Paul Jones written by John Paul Jones and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Stewart Graff and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the sea captain who, during the Revolutionary War, gave the American Navy its earliest tradition of heroism and victory.
Download or read book Boy s Book of Sea Fights written by Chelsea Curtis Fraser and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Download or read book Life and Battles of John Paul Jones written by John Paul Jones and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Life and Character of John Paul Jones a Captain in the United States Navy written by John Henry Sherburne and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
