John Paul Jones

• Images of War of Independence 1775-1783, including image of the Alfred and color portrait of Captain John Paul Jones, Continental Navy

• Calling cards presented to John Paul Jones
• Invitation from the Minister of the Netherlands to dinner
• Fragment of ledger for "Account current with the Chevalier Paul Jones"

• Captain John Paul Jones

• USS Paul Jones (1862-1867)
• USS Paul Jones II (DD-10)
• USS Paul Jones III (DD-230)
• USS John Paul Jones (DD-932)
• USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)

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• Ranger
• Bonhomme Richard
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• John Paul Jones
• "I have not yet begun to fight": The Story of John Paul Jones
• The Continental Navy: "I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight"

"...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!"

Captain John Paul Jones, 17 October 1776, in a letter to Robert Morris.
[Morgan, William James ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. vol. 6. (Washington, DC: Naval History Division, 1972): 1303.]

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

Captain John Paul Jones said this during the famous battle between Bonhomme Richard and Serapis on 23 September 1779. It seems that some of Jones' men cried for surrender, but not John Paul Jones. Captain Richard Pearson of Serapis asked Jones if he had surrendered. Jones uttered the immortal words: "I have not yet begun to fight!" So, at least, Lt. Richard Dale later recalled.

"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way."

Captain John Paul Jones, 16 November 1778, in a letter to le Ray de Chaumont.
[Morison, Samuel Eliot. John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959): 182.]