Category: Historical Novels
On a bright day in January, 1776, a lithe, handsome young man, wearing the uniform of a lieutenant in the Continental navy, stood on the dock at Philadelphia gazing keenly down the river. His eyes were peculiarly black and beautiful, and had an expression of command in them th...
At daybreak on the morning of the memorable 23d of September Paul Jones appeared on the Bon Homme Richard’s deck. A short distance off lay the Pallas and the treacherous Allianc...
8. CHAPTER VIII.It was a fair and lovely May morning when the Ranger, still towing the Drake, appeared off the bay of Brest. The American ensign was hoisted on the Drake over the Union Jack, an...
7. CHAPTER VII.For six days the weather continued to be very uncertain, and the Ranger ran from point to point between the Scotch and Irish coasts, waiting for a chance to slip in the port of...
9. CHAPTER IX.On the 14th of September Commodore Jones sent for the captains of the Pallas and Vengeance, and confided to them a plan he had for laying the city of Edinburgh under a contribut...
5. CHAPTER V.The repute of Paul Jones was now great, and the American Congress intended sending him abroad to take command of a splendid frigate, then building in Holland. But owing to the r...
6. CHAPTER VI.The respect with which he had been treated, and the dignity he maintained, had had great effect upon the officers and men under him. They knew neither the time nor the place of...
11. CHAPTER XI.The first thing to be done on board the Bon Homme Richard was to attempt to check the fire. The ceilings had caught, and were burning slowly but determinedly. The fire having go...
3. CHAPTER III.The morning of the 9th of April dawned clear and lovely. The American squadron, on its return from New Providence, was making its way cautiously along the New England coast, and...
12. CHAPTER XII.The wind continued to freshen as the squadron, with its two prizes, made for the open sea. Bad weather followed, and for ten days the Serapis, with her make-shift masts, and the...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The officers and men were as anxious to get away from the inhospitable Texel as was Paul Jones, and the sight, day after day, of the low-lying, monotonous landscape, the frozen...
1. CHAPTER I.On a bright day in January, 1776, a lithe, handsome young man, wearing the uniform of a lieutenant in the Continental navy, stood on the dock at Philadelphia gazing keenly down...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.So severe was the damage done the Ariel, that she was not able to leave port again for America until the 18th of December. As she carried a very valuable cargo of arms, besides...
4. CHAPTER IV.It was on the first day of September that the Providence sighted a large ship, which was mistaken for an Indiaman, homeward bound. She proved to be the Solebay, frigate, with tw...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Paul Jones’s first visit in Paris was to his best and firmest friend, Benjamin Franklin. In all of his anxieties, as well as his triumphs, Franklin had stood unflinchingly by hi...
19. CHAPTER XIX.The reception of Paul Jones by the Congress at Philadelphia was one suitable to his great services. On the 27th of February, Congress passed a resolution reciting that “The Cong...
17. CHAPTER XVII.The American commissioners were so poorly provided with money that they could never secure Paul Jones a ship worthy of him, and the best they could do was to get the Ariel, a Fr...
15. CHAPTER XV.It was his intention to get to Paris as quietly as possible, and for that reason he wore plain citizen’s clothes, and wrapped himself in a large cloak; but Danny Dixon, swelling...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The wound in the head which Paul Jones had received, and which he had made light of, turned out to be more serious than he would at first acknowledge. He had had one or two othe...
2. CHAPTER II.The first enterprise determined upon was an expedition to the island of New Providence, in the West Indies. On the 17th of February the squadron had set sail from the Delaware,...