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John Paul Jones was born in the year of 1772 in Scotland. When John Paul Jones first started his career when he was at the age of 13. When John Paul Jones reached the age of 21 he was a captain of a ship sailing between West Indies and the British ports. When John Paul Jones joined the continental navy during the American Revolution he had great success in international waters. While John Paul Jones was the commander of a heavily armed vessel call the Bonhomme Richard, John Paul Jones gave one of his famously known quotes saying “He had not yet begun the fight” During a fight with a British warship called Serapis. John Paul Jones was born in Scotland and was an apprentice to a merchant in 1761. When John Paul Jones was 13 he was set as a ship boy on a ship called Friendship and the Friendship was sailing between Britain and Virginia and also the West Indies. For the next 14 years John Paul Jones learned how to sell. When John Paul Jones reached the age of 21 he was the captain of a merchantman sailing between the West Indies and the British ports. On one …show more content…

John Paul Jones showed that he is a capable officer in action on the Alfred also on the sloop Providence which he also commanded in 1776. During the next year congress sent John Paul James to France as captain of the Ranger with orders for them to attack enemy commerce in British waters. John Paul Jones greatest success while captaining the Ranger came in the month of April 1778 when John Paul Jones sailed from Brest for the Irish sea to Whitehaven. This Amazing foray saw John Paul Jones fail at his attempt to abduct the Earl of Selkirk who he meant to exchange for Americans help up by the British but John Paul Jones captured the sloop of war Drake in a crazy

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