USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Captain John Paul Jones became the most famous American naval commander during the Revolution. His original name was John Paul. The son of a gardener, he was born in Scotland in 1747. At the age of 12, Paul worked as a cabin boy on the British ship Friendship.

Detailed explanation-2: -"I have not yet begun to fight!” This was the immortal retort of Captain John Paul Jones to a request to surrender as he and his crew engaged in a desperate battle with a British frigate off the northern coast of England during the American Revolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -America’s greatest Revolutionary naval commander and founder of America’s naval tradition, John Paul Jones, hailed from Scotland. He was born simply John Paul on July 6, 1747, to John Paul and Jean Duff Paul on the estate of Arbigland near Kirkcudbright, Scotland, where his father worked as a gardener.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Paul Jones is famous in the United States as the ‘Father of the American Navy’. He was born in poverty and through his skills became a distinguished naval officer fighting for both the USA and Russia. In Britain he is rather remembered as a pirate.