Scotland Magazine author John Paul Jones

America's navel hero

John Paul Jones was one of America’s greatest battle commanders during the Revolution. Not bad for a poor boy from Kirkcudbright.

John Paul Jones was born plain old ‘John Paul’ on the estate of Arbigland in Kirkcudbright on the 6th July 1747, and went on to be come America’s first naval hero in the American Revolutionary War. John Paul began his maritime career at the age of 13, sailing out of Whitehaven, England, as apprenti...

Scotland Legends from Issue 37 published on 20/03/2008