John Paul Jones - Father of the American Navy
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The Commodore John Paul Jones Memorial is located at West Potomac Park (by the Tidal Basin just off of 17th Street). The bronze standing figure of John Paul Jones is 10 feet high. The backdrop is a marble rectangular pylon with marble bowls and fountains at the base. John Paul Jones, noted American naval commander, was the first to raise the new American flag on an American war vessel and the first to compel a foreign man-of-war to surrender to a US vessel. Dedicated April 17, 1912. The sculptor of this memorial was Charles Niehaus. It's centrally located near the WWII Memorial and the reflecting pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. It's on a little island on the road.
Monument consists of a bronze sculpture of John Paul Jones installed on a low base in front of a large marble pylon with fountain basins on either side. The figure of John Paul Jones is standing, dressed in his military uniform, with his head turned slightly to the proper left as he watches a naval engagement from the deck of the Bon Homme Richard. Both hands are in fists and his proper left hand rests on his sword. A carved helmet amid foliage and a relief panel depicting axes, swords, and spears flank the small square base of the sculpture. On the pylon above the sculpture is a relief of an American eagle with a wreath on each side. On back of the pylon is a relief of John Paul Jones raising a flag on a British ship. All around the base and the pylon is a wider base which has three steps on both the north and south sides. A fountain basin is installed on the east and west sides. A dolphin spout pours water into each of the fountain basins. Above each dolphin is a relief panel depicting axes, spears, arrows, and other military equipment.
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John Paul Jones (July 6, 1747(1747-07-06) – July 18, 1792 (aged 45)) was America's first well-known naval hero in the American Revolutionary War.
John Paul Jones was born 'John Paul' in 1747, on the estate of Arbigland in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright on the southern coast of Scotland. John Paul's father was a gardener at Arbigland, and his mother was a member of Clan MacDuff.
John Paul adopted the alias 'John Jones' when he fled to his brother's home in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1773 to avoid the hangman's noose in Tobago after an incident when he was accused of murdering a sailor under his command. He began using the name 'John Paul Jones', at the suggestion of his brother.
Although his naval career never saw him above the rank of Captain in the Continental Navy after his victory over the Serapis with the frigate Bonhomme Richard, John Paul Jones remains the first genuine American Naval hero, as well as a highly regarded battle commander. His later service in the Russian Navy as an admiral showed the mark of genius that enabled him to defeat the Serapis.
Jones simply was not as good a politician as he was a naval commander, in an era where politics determined promotion, both in America and abroad. Although he was originally buried in Paris, after spending his last years abroad, he was ultimately reinterred at the United States Naval Academy, a fitting homecoming for the "Father of the American Navy".
During his engagement with Serapis, Jones uttered, according to the later recollection of his First Lieutenant, the legendary reply to a quip about surrender from the British captain: "I have not yet begun to fight!"
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Charles Henry Niehaus was an American sculptor born on January 24, 1855 in Cincinnati, Ohio and died June 19, 1935.
Among his many works is the Trenton Battle Monument in Trenton, New Jersey, 1891-1893.
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