246 Years Later, Captain John Paul Jones Best US Navy Line Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

246 Years Later, Captain John Paul Jones Best US Navy Line Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

He was born John Paul in Kirkcudbright, went to sea at twelve, served as first mate on a slaver and left the trade in disgust, killed the leader of a mutinous crew in self-defense at Tobago, and fled to Virginia a fugitive — adding a surname to hide behind. Six years later he was raiding the coast of the country he was born in.