Statues and sculpture. Statue of John Paul Jones I

ID: 2797 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Date: ca. 1920-ca. 1950.

This file appears in: John Paul Jones Monument: This statue honors the Revolutionary War hero rumored to have been the first to raise the new American flag on a foreign war vessel.

Theodor Horydczak Collection (Library of Congress)

This file appears in: John Paul Jones Monument: This statue honors the Revolutionary War hero rumored to have been the first to raise the new American flag on a foreign war vessel.

John Paul Jones Monument: This statue honors the Revolutionary War hero rumored to have been the first to raise the new American flag on a foreign war vessel.

By The DC Historic Sites team

John Paul Jones was a British merchant marine turned fugitive who took refuge in Virginia in 1773. At the outset of the Revolutionary War, he entered the Continental Navy as a lieutenant. Swiftly…