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[Illustration: THE ATTACK ON WHITEHAVEN.]




                                THE LIFE
                                   OF
                     REAR ADMIRAL JOHN PAUL JONES.

                                   BY
                           JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.

[Illustration]

                               NEW YORK:
                        DODD & MEAD, PUBLISHERS,
                             762 BROADWAY.

                   _AMERICAN PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS._

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                        THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES

                                   OF

                     REAR-ADMIRAL JOHN PAUL JONES,

                            COMMONLY CALLED

                              PAUL JONES.




                                   BY

                           JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.




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                              ILLUSTRATED.

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                               NEW YORK:
                        DODD & MEAD, PUBLISHERS,
                             762 BROADWAY.

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       Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
                              DODD & MEAD,
       in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

                                   TO

           THE OFFICERS AND SEAMEN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY,


                              THIS VOLUME,
      COMMEMORATIVE OF THE HEROIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF ONE OF THE MOST

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