John Paul Jones | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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John Paul Jones


00:01:06 1 Early life and training
00:04:40 2 Naval career
00:04:49 2.1 The American colonies
00:05:57 2.2 Revolutionary War command
00:06:06 2.2.1 Early command
00:07:42 2.2.2 Command of iRanger/i
00:09:46 2.2.3 iRanger/i attacks the British
00:13:59 2.2.4 Return to Ireland
00:16:07 2.2.5 iBonhomme Richard/i
00:20:19 2.3 Russian service
00:23:18 3 Later life and death
00:24:51 4 Exhumation and reburial
00:26:53 5 Pardon by the town and port of Whitehaven in 1999
00:27:49 6 In popular culture
00:29:29 7 See also



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John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 –  July 18, 1792) was the United States' first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War. He made many friends and enemies—who accused him of piracy—among America's political elites, and his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the American Navy" (a sobriquet he shares with John Barry and John Adams).
Jones grew up in Scotland, became a sailor, and served as commander of several British merchant ships. After having killed one of his crew members with a sword, he fled to the Colony of Virginia and around 1775 joined the newly founded Continental Navy in their fight against Britain in the American Revolutionary War. He commanded U.S. Navy ships stationed in France and led several assaults on England and Ireland. Left without a command in 1787, he joined the Imperial Russian Navy and obtained the rank of rear admiral.