The Story of John Paul Jones (Classic Reprint)

For a corking tale of the sea it would be hard to find in all fiction a story to equal that of John Paul Jones, a figure of sober history. Yet history was not so sober after all, in those days when piracy was an actual fact, and even nations at times winked at privateering on the high seas. Jones was born with a love of the salt spray in his nostrils. He came to this country as a mere lad, but already a skilled sailor. When the Revolution broke out, he obtained command of a ship, and was the first to fly theS tars-and-S tripes in foreign waters. Then came his deeds of daring against theB ritish Navy, and his repeated victories over tremendous odds. The fight between theB on Homme Richard and theS erapis is a classic. Surrender? he cried with most of his rigging shot away, and his vessel sinking, Why, I have just begun to fight! Belated honors were done to his memory, a few years ago, when his body was brought home from a neglected grave in France, and reinterred at Annapolis with all the honors in the gift of the nation. When the readers young and old lay aside this thrilling story.
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