"John Paul Jones" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Leatherstocking novels, and especially national, were Cooper's tales of the sea, or at least the two best of them—the Pilot, 1823, founded upon the daring exploits of John Paul Jones, and the Red Rover, 1828. But here, though Cooper still holds the sea, he has had to admit competitors; and Britannia, who rules the waves in song, has put in some claim to a share in the domain of nautical fiction in the persons of Mr. W. Clarke ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... known as the Grand Union or Cambridge Flag, and was displayed when Washington first took command of the army at Cambridge. It was raised on December 3, 1775, on the Alfred, flagship of the new little American Navy, by the senior Lieutenant of the ship, John Paul Jones, who later defended it gallantly ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... famous naval duel between the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis, John Paul Jones was hailed by his adversary to know whether he struck his colors. "I have not yet begun to fight," was his answer. When the surrender took place, it was not Jones's ship that became the prize of war. Everybody admires a hard fighter—the man who takes buffets ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris
... his horse these ten years, hopin' maybe he'd come back agin. It's John Paul Jones—the thoroughbred, that the ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... commission!" I exclaimed. "And he is going to France?" The nation which had driven John Paul Jones from its service was now to lose George ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... Bell Buffalo Bill Daniel Boone Luther Burbank Richard E. Byrd Kit Carson George Washington Carver Henry Clay Stephen Decatur Amelia Earhart Thomas Alva Edison Benjamin Franklin Ulysses S. Grant Henry Hudson Andrew Jackson Thomas Jefferson John Paul Jones Francis Scott Key Lafayette Robert E. Lee Leif the Lucky Abraham Lincoln Francis Marion Samuel F. B. Morse Florence Nightingale Annie Oakley Robert E. Peary William Penn Paul Revere Theodore Roosevelt Booker T. Washington George ...
— Daniel Boone - Taming the Wilds • Katharine E. Wilkie
... were attended by singular fatality. Thomas Barclay, who had some diplomatic experience, was commissioned to go to the Emperor of Morocco. When Barclay reached Gibraltar, he was taken ill, and, after being removed to Lisbon, he died. Admiral John Paul Jones was then appointed special commissioner to arrange for the ransom of the captives. As he had then left the Russian service and was living in Paris, it was supposed that his services would be available, but he died ...
— Washington and His Colleagues • Henry Jones Ford |
