John Paul Jones was once a British man named, simply, John Paul. He was suspected of murder so he ran away to America to escape trial. He became a navy officer for the American Army, and led a raid on his home country England. The plan of the raid was to sneak onto the British boats at night and set them on fire, however they didn't plan on the strong winds that night and couldn't get the fires started. After struggling to find something that would keep the fires burning John Paul Jones was able to use tar to keep the boats ablaze. As he sailed away he looked back at what he had done. With a few more hours time he could have set the whole city ablaze
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