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Title: Paul Jones

Author: Hutchins Hapgood

Release Date: April 29, 2009 [EBook #28633]

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The Riverside Biographical Series

NUMBER 12

PAUL JONES

BY

HUTCHINS HAPGOOD

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The Riverside Biographical Series

1. ANDREW JACKSON, by W. G. BROWN.

2. JAMES B. EADS, by LOUIS HOW.

3. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by PAUL E. MORE.

4. PETER COOPER, by R. W. RAYMOND.

5. THOMAS JEFFERSON, by H. C. MERWIN.

6. WILLIAM PENN, by GEORGE HODGES.

7. GENERAL GRANT, by WALTER ALLEN.

8. LEWIS AND CLARK, by WILLIAM R. LIGHTON.

9. JOHN MARSHALL, by JAMES B. THAYER.

10. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by CHAS. A. CONANT.

11. WASHINGTON IRVING, by H. W. BOYNTON.

12. PAUL JONES, by HUTCHINS HAPGOOD.

13. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, by W. G. BROWN.

14. SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, by H. D. SEDGWICK, Jr.

15. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by HORACE E. SCUDDER.

Each about 140 pages, 16mo, with photogravure
portrait, vols. 1-9, 75 cents; other subsequent
vols., each 65 cents, _net_; _School Edition_,
each, 50 cents, _net_.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

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[Illustration: Paul Jones [signature]]

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PAUL JONES

BY
HUTCHINS HAPGOOD

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1901

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HUTCHINS HAPGOOD

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published November, 1901_

PREFACE

The amount of material bearing on Paul Jones is very large, and consists
mainly of his extensive correspondence, published and unpublished, his
journals, memoirs by his private secretary and several of his officers,
published and unpublished impressions by his contemporaries, and a
number of sketc