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Jones was ordered to proceed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to embark on a twenty-gun French ship, the Amphitrite, that would carry him to France.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Only a British twenty-gun ship and a couple of cutters rode at anchor, and the great guns in the fort at Edinburgh Castle could not reach the coast.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Only a British twenty-gun ship and a couple of cutters rode at anchor, and the great guns in the fort at Edinburgh Castle could not reach the coast.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

His joy was quickly restored when, on June 14, Congress authorized Jones to take command of a brand-new twenty-gun sloop, the Ranger.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Jones planned to have the Bonhomme Richard, the Vengeance, and the Pallas lay along the twenty-gun Royal Navy ship and the cutters in the harbor and quickly overwhelm their crews.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Jones was ordered to proceed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to embark on a twenty-gun French ship, the Amphitrite, that would carry him to France.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Given command of his own sloop, the Hyder-Ally, in the last year of the war, Barney won a rare American victory in a ship-to-ship action, taking a twenty-gun British sloop, the General Monk.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Jones planned to have the Bonhomme Richard, the Vengeance, and the Pallas lay along the twenty-gun Royal Navy ship and the cutters in the harbor and quickly overwhelm their crews.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

His joy was quickly restored when, on June 14, Congress authorized Jones to take command of a brand-new twenty-gun sloop, the Ranger.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Given command of his own sloop, the Hyder-Ally, in the last year of the war, Barney won a rare American victory in a ship-to-ship action, taking a twenty-gun British sloop, the General Monk.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003