. Book of the Royal blue . at the UnitedStates Naval Academy at Annapolis, whichwas established for the precise i)urpose heurged. Jones never knew- when he was whi|) is something of a genius in that,I think. Nelson was un(|uestionable agenius. He never knew when he was whipped, and the British i)eople worshiphim to this day, desjiite that story thatWellington one day at the Horse ( in conversation with a man thenmiknown to him, who, he declared, talkedlike a fool, only to learn the man wasNelson. By all the laws and rules John ship, the Bonhomme Richard, .iro
. Book of the Royal blue . at the UnitedStates Naval Academy at Annapolis, whichwas established for the precise i)urpose heurged. Jones never knew- when he was whi|) is something of a genius in that,I think. Nelson was un(|uestionable agenius. He never knew when he was whipped, and the British i)eople worshiphim to this day, desjiite that story thatWellington one day at the Horse ( in conversation with a man thenmiknown to him, who, he declared, talkedlike a fool, only to learn the man wasNelson. By all the laws and rules John ship, the Bonhomme Richard, .irotten old East Indianian, was whenIearson, commander of the British man-of-war Separis, seeing the colors shot awayfrom his enemy, hailed. Have you struckrExeryone knows Jones reply, 1 notbegun to fight. But beyond his unijuestioned ability asa fighter for the colonies .lones was a manof great attainments. The son of a humblegardener, he gained at sea, when yet young,some education, which steadily increased at. GENERAL HORACE PORTER, post of life he subsequently foundhimself. French he spoke and wrote withas great facility as English. He was adiplomat, and what a diplomat 1 He gainedthe entree of the French and So successful, influential and pop-ular did he become at the French capitalthat he excited the jealousy of the Ameri-can commissioners. Jones had large ideas, and it was hewho convinced Washington, soon after warbegan, that advantage lay not in remainingon the defensive with such slender navalforces as then were jjossessed, but rather instriking boldly across the Atlantic at theBritish in their home ports. This he did,,ind with what success we know. when I was a boy the idea was heldgenerally that John Paul Jones was more orless of a pirate. This was due, doubtless,to the hostile view of the British, who werethe first to write of him, and who were em- 8 ADMIRAL JOHN PAUL JONES. bittered by his raids ui)on the Scottishcoast. This fals
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