John Paul Jones: Man of Action
Phillips Russell
John Paul Jones: Man of Action
Phillips Russell
- The biography of John Paul Jones, the popular naval hero of the Revolution. Contents: A Bold Captain Boards a Saucy Ship; A Canvas and a Figure; A Little Bark is Launched; A Whip and a Sword; Twenty Months of Darkness; Who was the Sailor’s Sweetheart?; The Man Who Put Jones in the Navy; The First Cruise; The First Independent Command; Triumphs and Treacheries; Chills and Fever; Overseas in the Ranger; In France; Plans for the Grand Cruise; Raids by Sea and Land; Spies and Counter Spies; A Strange Letter to the Countess of Selkirk; The New Ship; Preparations and Plagues; More Treachery; The Battle in the Moonlight; Aftermaths; The Warrior’s Reward; Further Intrigues; Farewell to France; The Tenth Renunciation; The Evils of Peace; The Collection Agent; The Call from the East; Unholy Russia; Battles and Letters; Plots and Pleas; Back to Western Europe; A Changed Paris; and The Man, the Victim and the Knight. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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