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John Paul Jones1747–1792

John Paul Jones on courage

I have not yet begun to fight!

John Paul Jones

Reply when asked whether his ship had struck, Battle of Flamborough Head (23 September 1779), as recalled by his first lieutenant, Richard Dale, in John Henry Sherburne’s Life and Character of John Paul Jones (1825); Jones’s own report gives no such words

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