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Cruises of John Paul Jones in British waters [Courses of the Ranger, Bon Homme Richard, Serapis, and Alliance]. Notes: Shows courses taken and battles fought by U.S. naval ships under the command of John Paul Jones in British waters during the period of the American Revolution.
During the ensuing war with Great Britain, Jones participated in several naval engagements with the British Royal Navy. Commanding the warship Ranger, Jones conducted a naval campaign in the North Sea, attacking British merchant shipping and other civilian targets.
24 de jun. de 2024 · John Paul Jones is best known for his raid on the English town of Whitehaven in April 1778 and for his command of the USS Bonhomme Richard, which dueled HMS Serapis on 23 September 1779. What happened to John Paul Jones after the American Revolution?
After returning to the Whitehaven, Great Britain, John Paul had found that John Younger’s business was failing, and he was released from his apprenticeship. Now seventeen, John Paul entered the slave trade.
Jones was born John Paul on 6 July 1747, in Kirkcudbright, Scotland. At the age of 12 he entered the British merchant marine and went to sea for the first time as a cabin boy. He became first...
3 de feb. de 2012 · Jones had come round the north coast of Scotland, thus avoiding the heavy British naval presence in the English Channel. His orders were to provide a diversionary attack on British assets there whilst a French and Spanish invasion fleet launched the main attack on southern Britain.
WHITEHAVEN, ENGLAND. 22-23 April 1778. On 10 April Captain John Paul Jones sailed in the eighteen-gun sloop Ranger from Brest, France. He was under the orders of the American commissioners in Paris to attack British commercial shipping in the Irish Sea and along Britain's west coast.
