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JOHN PAUL JONES
CHAPTER IV
LIEUTENANT AND CAPTAIN
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In those days, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, made his headquarters on a British vessel, off the coast, because he was afraid to set foot on land. As there wasn’t any royal governing to do, he spent his time ravaging the little villages along the Virginia shore. So the American squadron was directed to sail against him. But the old excuse of ice in the river, which prevents so many of us from getting to our work promptly even now, kept the vessels in the Delaware, and when they
