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John Paul Jones - College Term Paper

John Paul Jones

started out in the West Indies trade as a merchant
skipper. He then joined the Continental Navy, and quikly worked imself up
to the rank of captian. He loved sailing the open sea, and there wasn't
much he enjoyed more than it.
There were really only a couple of events that made John Paul Jones'
name well known among the people of Europe. The first time his name came
before the English public was when he and his crew raided Whitehaven Harbor,
and burned a Britsh ship.
Jones' plan was to destroy commerce shpping. He wanted to destroy
more shoips in one night than the whole Navy had taken in a year. as luck
would have it, he had destroyed more ships in one night than the whole ...

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Head. A Baltic convoy
escorted by two British ships was sailing past Flamborough Head, and since
Jones had always wanted to break up a Baltic convly, that's exactly what he
planned to do.
Jones had three warships under his command compared to the two British
escorts. He soon realized after chasing the convoy, that he would have to
sink the escorts ot get a crack at the convoy. when the battle started,
bad communication left Jones' ship one-on-one with a superior waship,
another ship fighting the other British escort, and the alst ship under
Jones' command just sailing around.
It was quite a battle between the Bonhomme Richard (Jones) and the
Serapis (Bitish). this was the battle where Jones said what he's always
been remembered for saying: "I have not yet begun to fight." Jones had a
rough time of it; one of the ships under his command, Alliance, was under
the command of a basically insane captain, and when he wasn't sailing
around watching the battle, he ...

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Added: 5/13/2008 04:54:37 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 451
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