Scott and Jenn recount Commodore John Paul Jones’s rise from a Scottish sailor who began at sea at 13 to a celebrated Continental Navy officer known for taking the fight to Britain, including the 1779 Bonhomme Richard battle with HMS Serapis that produced his famous refusal to surrender.
They follow the 1905–1906 detective effort to locate his remains under a paved-over Paris cemetery, their identification, Theodore Roosevelt’s battleship-escorted return to the U.S., and his 1913 reinterment in a sarcophagus beneath the Naval Academy Chapel crypt in Annapolis.
00:00 I Have Not Yet Begun
00:55 Welcome
02:04 Reviews
03:02 Annapolis Crypt Visit
05:23 Early Life At Sea
09:48 Becoming John Paul Jones
12:44 Continental Navy Rise
14:17 Privateer Or Pirate?
18:05 Serapis Legendary Battle
21:00 Russia Scandal Exile
24:42 Death And Lost Grave
26:37 Finding John Paul Jones
31:11 Crypt Legacy
33:06 Final Reflection
