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John Paul Jones
1747-1792
Fearless in battle, and successful in keeping a large portion of the Royal Navy from our shores during our revolution, Jones also urged the establishment of navy officer schooling ashore. He gave our Navy its earliest traditions of Heroism and Victory.
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"Every officer in our Navy should know by heart the deeds of John Paul Jones. Every officer in our Navy should feel in each fiber of his being the eager desire to emulate the energy, the professional capacity, the indomitable determination and dauntless scorn of death which marked John Paul Jones above all his fellows."
-- President Theodore Roosevelt
This crypt has been restored to its original solemn splendor by the Naval Academy Class of 1955.
9 September 2005 |