John Paul Jones was born in Scotland. He was an apprentice in 1761 for a merchant. At the age of 13 he already began his career at sea. He was a ship’s boy on the Friendship sailing between Britain and Virginia and the West Indies.” At the age of 21 he was the captain of a merchantman sailing between the West Indies and British ports. In 1773, he put down a mutiny, running his sword through the ringleader in the process, and fled to America to avoid trial in a civil
One of the most important Americans in history was not born in America, and almost no one has heard of him. His name is Hercules Mulligan, and he was born in the year 1740 in County Antrim, Ireland. Mulligan moved to the colony of New York in 1746, when he was only 6 years old. Hercules went to college at Kings College, the precursor to Columbia University. Upon graduation he went to went as a clerk at his father’s accounting business. After years of working for his father, Hercules went to start his own business as a tailor. He accumulated many customers who were wealthy British businessman and high ranking British officers. In 1765, Hercules decided to join in the fight against the British, so he joined the Sons of Liberty. Then in 1772,
For one thing, John had created a document that had saved America from a war with Great Britain, a war that would have ended in disaster for Americans. It started with the British seizing a hundred merchantmen ships, traveling to the French West Indies carrying contraband, or illegal goods. Jay was sent to Britain to help resolve the conflict, and the resulting solution was Jay’s Treaty. Both sides signed it , which preventing war breaking out between the two countries. The lasting significance in this is that if Jay’s Treaty never happened, we could have gone to war with Britain, lost, and never have remained a free country. An example of a modern day version of John Jay could be Ronald Reagan, as they both worked to end conflict, against the British, and the Soviet
Although John Paul Jones had a past filled with murder, his character and heroism remains unquestionable by the contributions he made to the America, making him the greatest navy leader of the American Revolution. Through his time with the Continental Navy, he exhibited countless feats of bravery, leadership, and victories that are still discussed and admired to this day.
John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, on the family farm in the North Precinct of Braintree, Massachusetts. He was the second of five children to his parents John and Susanna Boylston Adams. John's father was his role model because he wasn't only a farmer by trade, but he also took on many other time consuming jobs around the community to help others. Everyone in his hometown in some way dealt with him because he owned the titles of: the deacon of the church, selectman, tax collector, constable, and the lieutenant of the militia. John's mother was from a very wealthy Boston family, but infamous for having a bad temper. She remarried in 1766 following the death of John's father five years earlier due to the flu epidemic. John
John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767 in Braintree, MA. John was the son of second President John Adams. While he was a child,around the age of 8, he got to experience something no other child would ever wonder, he watched the famous Battle of Bunker Hill on a hill top that was close to his farm house. John Quincy was never really allowed the freedom of being a child. From age 10 and up he went with his father to important meeting about the Revolution, Treaty of Paris, Etc. Soon after he became his fathers secretary of state.
John Adams: Courage and Leadership Maycee Dettman Have you ever questioned how much wonder and bravery a man can have? John Adams, took this farther than ever. John always wanted everything fair for each side, whether in court, on the battlefield, or just in his office. Born on October 31, 1735, which today would make him 281 years old, he did serve his years very well as a Patriot. John Adams shows how it is easy to have courage, to make things fair even though one side might not agree with you, but also have leadership to guide the people in the colonies in the right direction.
Captain John Paul Jones was a man of the army! He was an American soldier. People from the United States Sailed him over the ocean to fight with the
John Adams was one of our founding fathers of this country, our first vice president and later on our second president of the United States of America. John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Quincy, Massachusetts on a farm. He was named after his father who was at the time a constable and lieutenant of the militia army who died from the flu. John Adams then lived with two brothers and a remarried mother. John Adams was a very intelligent student in school he taught by his father to read but he had very little patient for school but his father always wanted him to attend the school of Harvard and become a minister.
John Jay was born December 12,1745. He spent his childhood near Rye, New York. Later on in his life, Jay became a successful lawyer. Bye the time that rifts with the Great Britain and calls for independence erupted in the colonies. John Jay was a very devoted person and always kept his eye on the prize.
Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts in October of 1735, even though they weren't sure the actual date (Diggins, 17). His father was a farmer, he persuaded him to go to Harvard college, after that he was persuaded to make a career in the congregational ministry (Ref. history). John was the first american to become a minister in England (Resch, 3). He also was an educated lawyer, and early became identified with the patriot (US government). In 1774 his career in law ended, the colonist and developing nations began demanding all of his talents (Charles akers).
In this paragraph,you will learn about his early life. Paul Jones born in Kirkbean, Scotland, on July 6, 1747. He was the son of an estate gardener. Instead of following in his father's footsteps, at the age of thirteen, he went to sea as a apprenticed merchant. When he was 21, he was captaining ships. He went to court for stabbing the ringleader
John Laurens was born in South Carolina on October 28, 1754 into a very wealthy family. His mother passed away and his father took him and his three brothers to Switzerland to continue their education A few years later, John Lauren’s moved to England to learn more about legal studies. Laurens was not interested in law, he was more interested in the tension between American colonies and England. Laurens moved to America and joined the Continental Army. Since he was so good in French, he was chosen do be Washington’s aid. He became friendly with Alexander Hamilton and Marquis de Lafayette. Laurens was an abolitionist and tried to convince Washington to free slaves. He suggested that a regiment of enslaved people would be recruited from
“Never give up.” That's what John Cena always says. These are not just words he uses, but words he chooses to live his life by. People can say something as much as they want, but living by them is a completely different thing. John Cena is an inspiration for many reasons. A few reasons that make him so admirable are that he fought and struggled to make it to where he is now even if people didn't always believe in him, he works with Make-A-Wish Foundation and has granted the most wishes as well as partnered with Susan G. Komen, and he's had to fight back from so many injuries to keep doing what he loves to do. All his life, especially in the beginning, he’s been an underdog. Nobody truly believed he could accomplish all that he set out to do.
The movie Forrest Gump was directed by Robert Zemeckis and released July 6, 1994. This was an American drama based on the 1986 novel Forrest Gump by Winston Groom. Forrest Gump, played by Tom Hanks is a simple man who had a low I.Q and often told he was stupid but he always had good intentions with everything he did. In the movie Forrest Gump was told by his mother that he was named after a civil war hero, Nathan Bedford Forrest. The man who founded the Klu Klux Klan during the 1800’s. In this Tom hanks is actually superimposed onto a picture from the movie, Birth of a Nation.In this movie the members of the KKK were portrayed as heroes and Forrest said that the reason he was named that was becauses his mother said “the name Forrest was to
Born on September 6, 1766 John Dalton had a rough life from the very start. John was born into a family of tradesmen from Joseph and Deborah Dalton in Eaglesfield, England. His grandfather, Jonathan, was a shoemaker and his father was a weaver. Also, throughout his family history, it showed that he came from a long line of Quakers. John was the third child of the Dalton's to reach adulthood, which would help lead to his success later on in his life. From the beginning all John longed for was a formal education. His family was poor, implying that he would be expected to help with earning money from an early age.