This is the true life story of the Scottish gardener's son, John Paul, who became America's greatest naval hero, John Paul Jones. British midshipman, African slaver, traveling actor, merchant captain, accused of murder and suspected of freebooting--this was John Paul. Captain in Washington's Continental Navy, raider of the British coasts and victor in one of history's most desperate naval battles, lion of the French court and beloved by beautiful women, Russian admiral under Catherine the Great, and dead at 45, neglected by his adopted United States, his very grave lost for a hundred years--that was John Paul Jones.

John Paul Jones, Fighter for Freedom and Glory

History

Lorenz, Lincoln

Americas

United States Naval Institute

1902 US Navy USN Bluejacket's Manual 1978 reprint. 3 7/8" X 5 3/4" softback with 304 pages - Envelope style cover. The Bluejacket's Manual is the basic handbook for United States Navy personnel. First issued in 1902 to teach new recruits about naval procedures and life and offer a reference for active sailors, it has become the "bible" for Navy personnel, providing information about a wide range of Navy topics.

Bluejackets' Manual

McLean, Ridley

Military

Championship Wrestling

Sports & Outdoors

Keen, Clifford P. And Charles M. speidel and Raymond H. Swartz

Individual Sports

A factual account of the early attempts to supply MacArthur.

Destination Corregidor,

Underbrink, Robert L

Book by Dunlap, G.D. And H.H. Shufeldt

Dutton's Navigation & Piloting, 12th Edition

Science & Math

G.D. Dunlap and H.H. Shufeldt

Astronomy & Space Science

Guide to the Soviet Navy

BREYER, Siegfried

Translated By Lieutenant Commander M. W. Henley, DSC., Royal

Gunboats Down the Mississippi is the story of the Federal fresh-water navy which engaged in the actions on the Western rivers and contributed to the opening of the Mississippi River for the Union. This phase of the Civil War is told here for the first time in its entirety; and this account supports the belief of some historians that Vicksburg, not Gettysburg, was the crisis of the Confederacy. From the first days of the Civil War, the importance of the Mississippi was obvious to both belligerents. The Confederacy was receiving much-needed supplies from the states to the west of the river. The Union forces sought to stop this flow of supplies by opening the river from Cairo to the Gulf of Mexico and by completing the Union blockade of the South. In the Federalist fleet were ironclads, tinclads, woodclads, and rams. Many were hastily reconstructed river steamers. They were manned by officers and men of the regular naval forces and by former river steamer pilots and crews. All were under the unusual dual control of the War Department and the Navy Department. Engaging in joint amphibious operations, the Federal forces succeeded in opening the Mississippi with the capitulation of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863.

Gunboats Down the Mississippi

Milligan, John D.

In print for nearly twenty years, and regularly updated, this popular reference has come to be relied on by the NCO corps for its wealth of information.

Handbook for Marine NCOs

Engineering & Transportation

Heinl, Robert Debs

Engineering

Heavy Weather Guide: Part I-Hurricanes, Part II-Typhoons

Editor)

Environment

Biography. Edition not noted. Black cloth covers good, spine ends bumped, spine a little faded, front cover slightly sprung. Dust jacket rubbed, lightly foxed and soiled, light edge wear. Interior clean and tight. light spot on the first endpaper, pages toned, top edge dusty, slightly musty smell.

John P. Holland 1841-1914 Inventor of the Modern S

Biographies & Memoirs

Morris, Richard K.

Arts & Literature

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