Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . Portrait of John Paul Jonei. JOHN PAUL JONES. 383 After his return to Brest with two hundred prisoners-of-war, Jones becameinvolved in a variety of troubles, for want of means to support them, pay hiscrew, and refit his ship. After many delays and vexations, he sailed from theroad of St. Croix, August 14, 1779, with a squadron of seve
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . Portrait of John Paul Jonei. JOHN PAUL JONES. 383 After his return to Brest with two hundred prisoners-of-war, Jones becameinvolved in a variety of troubles, for want of means to support them, pay hiscrew, and refit his ship. After many delays and vexations, he sailed from theroad of St. Croix, August 14, 1779, with a squadron of seven sail, designing toannoy the coasts of England and Scotland. The principal occurrence of thiscruise was the capture of the British ship-of-war Serapis, after a bloody anddesperate engagement, off Flamborough head, September 2^ 1779. The Sera-pis had a picked crew, and was a frigate much superior in Woicce to Joness ves-sel, the Bon Homme Richard, which sunk not. long after the termination of the. Capture of the Serapis. engagement, During the action, which lasted several hours, the greater partof his crew were either killed or wounded, and his ship twice on fire. In ad-dition to this, the other vessels of his squadron could give him little or no aid ;and one of them, the Alliance, by some unaccountable conduct of her com-mander, who was inimical to Jones, fired several shots into the Bon HommeRichard! Still the indomitable spirit of the hero would not yield even in thistrying hour; and when a subordinate officer, without orders, was in the act ofstriking the American flag, Jones shot him dead with a pistol, and as he fellupon the deck, the descending colors completely shrouded the prostrate formof the traitor. The flag was speedily replaced, and Jones renewed the combatwith such desperation, that in a short time there was scarcely a man left uponthe decks of the Serapis capable of hauling down her ensign, which was foundnailed to the mast. The sensation produced by this battle
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