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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792.
United States. Navy -- Biography.
Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations.
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John Paul Jones : commemoration at Annapolis, April 24, 1906 / compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by Charles W. Stewart, Superintendent Library and Naval War Records.
Washington : Govt. Print. Off. [for sale by the Supt. of Docs.], 1966.
Subjects
Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792.
United States. Navy -- Biography.
Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations.
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House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 59th Congress, 1st session, no. 804.
Description:
210 pages : illustrations, portraits, plates ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- Addresses at Annapolis -- Papers and reports. Discovery, identification, and transfer of remains of John Paul Jones -- Letters of John Paul Jones -- Chronology -- Appendix.
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John Paul (1747-1792) was born at Arbigland, Scotland. He apprenticed and went to sea on the Friendship. He assumed the name of "Jones" when his brother William Paul "Jones" (d.1772) died and left property to him in North Carolina. He was appointed first of the first lieutenants in the Continental Navy by Congress in 1775. He was the Naval Commander of the Bonhomme Richard in 1780. Admiral John Paul Hones died in Paris at his residence, No. 42 Rue de Tournon. He is remembered as a national hero of the United States.
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Hawaii State Library
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973.35092 Jones Jo
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