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PUBLICATIONS
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NAVAL HISTORY SOCIETY
Volume I
John Paul Jones
Tels hommes rarement se peuvent présenter,
Et quand le Ciel les donne, il faut en profiter.
THE LOGS
OF THE
SERAPIS—ALLIANCE—ARIEL
UNDER THE COMMAND OF
JOHN PAUL JONES
1779-1780
WITH EXTRACTS FROM PUBLIC DOCUMENTS,
UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, AND NARRATIVES, AND ILLUSTRATED
WITH REPRODUCTIONS OF SCARCE PRINTS
EDITED BY
JOHN S. BARNES
LATE LIEUTENANT COMMANDER, U. S. N.
NEW YORK
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MDCCCCXI
Copyright, 1911, by
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(p. ix) CONTENTS
Forewordxiii
List of Officers and Men of the Continental Ship, Bon Homme Richard, July the 26th, 17793
A List of The Men Names that has Desarted from The Bone Homme Richard, Lorient July. 19th. 177918
A List of Officers, & Men, belonging to the American Continental Ship of War, Ariel, Commanded, by the Honble, John Paul Jones20
Some Remarkable Occurrences that happened on the 23d day of September 1779—relative to the Bon Homme Richard, and the Serapis.—Commanded by Richard Pearson Esqr24
A Journall Kept on Board the Serapis, an English Ship of War, of 44 Guns taken the 23rd. of September, (by the Bon