Bonhomme Richard Vs Serapis
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Bonhomme Richard vs Serapis
Author | : Mark Lardas |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2012-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781849087865 |
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The clash between the American Bonhomme Richard and the British HMS Serapis during the American Revolutionary War is perhaps the most famous single-ship duel in history. This epic battle between two very similar ships – and crews – off the coast of Britain in September 1779 created two naval heroes: in victory, John Paul Jones became a figure that all future American naval officers would aspire to emulate, while Richard Pearson, in defeat, became a hero to the British for a tenacious defence that allowed the merchant vessels under his protection to escape. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this is the story of an epic maritime clash at the height of the Revolutionary War that provided a founding legend for generations of US naval officers and demonstrated the intrepidity and fighting prowess of the fledgling US Navy.
Bonhomme Richard vs Serapis
Author | : Mark Lardas |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2012-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781780964485 |
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The clash between the American Bonhomme Richard and the British HMS Serapis during the American Revolutionary War is perhaps the most famous single-ship duel in history. This epic battle between two very similar ships – and crews – off the coast of Britain in September 1779 created two naval heroes: in victory, John Paul Jones became a figure that all future American naval officers would aspire to emulate, while Richard Pearson, in defeat, became a hero to the British for a tenacious defence that allowed the merchant vessels under his protection to escape. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this is the story of an epic maritime clash at the height of the Revolutionary War that provided a founding legend for generations of US naval officers and demonstrated the intrepidity and fighting prowess of the fledgling US Navy.
John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard
Author | : Jean Boudriot |
Publsiher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015012877687 |
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John Paul Jones
Author | : Evan Thomas |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781451603996 |
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The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.
Journal of the American Revolution
Author | : Todd Andrlik,Don N. Hagist |
Publsiher | : Journal of the American Revolu |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1594162786 |
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The fourth annual compilation of selected articles from the online Journal of the American Revolution.
Constitution vs Guerriere
Author | : Mark Lardas |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2012-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781780963457 |
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Famed as a classic naval duel, a one-on-one clash between two sailing frigates offered the victor immeasurable fame and glory. During the War of 1812, the Royal Navy and United States Navy squared off in four such duels, the most famous that between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerrière. Ships and tactics between the two nations varied enormously, with the American navy favouring a revolutionary design of frigate, with twenty-four pounder guns and heavy structural timbers, while the British, used to fighting the French and Spanish navies, relied on smaller, eighteen-pounder frigates. Through first-hand accounts of these four single-ship actions and fascinating comparisons of artillery, crew ability and tactical achievements, this book offers an unparalleled insight into the ruthless reality of frigate battles in the War of 1812.
The New American Revolution Handbook
Author | : Theodore P. Savas,J. David Dameron |
Publsiher | : Savas Beatie |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2010-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781611210620 |
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An informative overview of the American Revolutionary War, featuring studies on battles, campaigns, belligerents, women, technology, statistics, and more. This remarkable new handbook makes studying the Revolutionary War simple and pleasurable. The authors use clear and concise writing broken down into short and easy to understand chapters complete with original maps, tables, charts, and dozens of drawings to trace the history of the Revolution from the beginning of the conflict through the final surrender in 1783. The New American Revolution Handbook includes a wide range of topics and subjects, many of which are ignored or glossed over in traditional texts. In addition to the traditional study of battles and campaigns, Savas and Dameron provide topical focus on such subjects as women, Native Americans, African Americans, the Dutch, the Germans, the Spanish, the French, technology, numbers and losses, and much more. The handbook also covers military organizations, the armies and navies, commanders on both sides, and references and recommendations for additional detailed research. Experienced readers will readily identify the value of ship lists, organizational charts, and flags of the war. Never has so much invigorating material been packed into such an easy-to-read book. Exciting, informative, educational, and highly motivating, The New American Revolution Handbook will be an especially useful tool for both students and teachers. As a quick fact reference book or as a leisure read, it will provide hours of exploration and immersion into a fascinating world at war that continues to impact our lives today.
John Paul Jones
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
Publsiher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Admirals |
ISBN | : 1557504105 |
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This 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning book vividly portrays the illustrious career of John Paul Jones, from his early training at sea in the British West Indian merchant trade to his command in the newly independent American Navy and his eventual award of flag status.