John Paul Jonesin a sentence
- In the days that followed, Adams spent considerable time with the daring young Scottish-American naval officer, John Paul Jones, who was fitting out an old French merchantman that he had renamed the Bonhornme Richard.† (source)
- — John Paul Jones, September 14, 1775; excerpts from a letter to the naval committee of the N. A. insurrectionists.† (source)
- John Paul Jones is famous for replying to a request that he surrender by saying, "I have not yet begun to fight!"
- And John Paul Jones was a decided disappointment.† (source)
- The few resident Americans she met, like the famously beautiful Anne Bingham of Philadelphia and the naval hero John Paul Jones, did not greatly impress her.† (source)