The Sailor Whom England Feared
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Excerpt from The Sailor Whom England Feared: Being the Story of Paul Jones, Scotch Naval Adventurer and Admiral in the American and Russian Fleets Among the brilliant adventurers who passed meteor-like across the closing years of the eighteenth century, no name is better known than that of the famous Scotsman John Paul Jones. In response to his ardent plea for a sailor´s life, he was apprenticed and sent to sea at the age of twelve to seek his fortune. He rose rapidly, unaided by favour or influence, and at nineteen became chief mate of a slaver, at twenty-one captain of a West India trading vessel; then came his experience as a Virginia planter. At twenty-eight he was commissioned lieutenant in the American Continental Navy, at twenty-nine became captain, at thirty-two commodore, "the ocean hero of the Old World and the New," spoiled, adulated, petted by great and small. Special envoy to the French Court at thirty-six; at forty, in commemoration of the victory of the Bonhomme Richard over the Serapis, voted a gold medal by Congress; and now the thread of life shows its first sign of wearing... A vice-admiral in the Navy of the Russian Empress at forty-three, waiting for the last brilliant chapters to be written; at forty-five dead! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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