Author: Augustus C. Buell
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Category : Ship captains
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Author: Augustus C. Buell
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Languages : en
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Author: Evan Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451603991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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The 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.

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Languages : en
Pages : 439

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Author: Augustus C Buell
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021958228
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This biography offers a comprehensive account of the life and career of John Paul Jones, the Scottish sailor who founded the United States Navy during the American Revolution. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including Jones's own letters and journals, Augustus Buell paints a vivid portrait of this complex and charismatic figure. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the American military or naval warfare. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Augustus C. Buell
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ISBN: 9780598867858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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Author: Augustus C. Buell
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781494196356
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition.

Author: Tracie Egan
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9780823941858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Profiles John Paul Jones, who served during the Revolutionary War and is credited with founding the United States Navy.

Author: Augustus C. Buell
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Category : Sailors
Languages : en
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Author: Augustus C Buell
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781358763700
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Languages : en
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.