John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard
Author: Jean Boudriot
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 136
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Author: Jean Boudriot
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Evan Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1451603991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Mark Lardas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-07-20
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1849087865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTom Van Oosterhout highlights information about Scottish-born American naval officer John Paul Jones (1747-1792) and his ship, the Bonhomme Richard. Jones used the ship in the American Revolutionary War battle that occurred on September 23, 1779. It was during this battle that Jones made his famous quotation "I have not yet begun to fight."
Author: Jean Boudriot
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9782903178208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael L. Cooper
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780792255475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated 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.
Author: Todd Andrlik
Publisher: Journal of the American Revolu
Published: 2017-05-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594162787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth annual compilation of selected articles from the online Journal of the American Revolution.
Author: William Gilkerson
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781557504104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Jamey M. Long
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1620243431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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.