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John Paul Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | John Paul Jones was born John Paul in 1747 in the Stewarty of Kirkcudbright on the southern coast of Scotland. |
| | Jones accepted the honor, and desired the title to be used thereafter: when the Continental Congress in 1787 resolved that a medal of gold be struck in commemoration of his "valor and brilliant services" it was to be presented to "Chevalier John Paul Jones". |
| | Jones successfully repulsed Ottoman forces from the area, but the jealous intrigues of Russian officer Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin and his cohort Prince of Nassau-Siegen caused him to be recalled to St.Petersburg for the pretended purpose of being transferred to a command in the North Sea. |
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