John Paul Jones Statue, [Washington, D.C.]

ID: 2799 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Date: [between 1910 and 1925]

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.

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…