True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 42
led prizes/* JOHN PAUL JONES 43 almost in sight of their homes, he boldly sailed to the northand into the very port of Whitehaven, where he had tendedstore, as a boy, and from which he had first gone to seaHe knew the place, of course. He knew how many vesselswere there, and what a splendid victory… … JONES APPROACHING WHITEHAVEN, EARLY MORNING With two row-boats and thirty men he landed at White-haven, locked up the soldiers in the forts, fixed the cannonso that they could not be fired, set fire to the vessels that werein the harbor, and so frightened all the people that, thoughthe gardeners…
