tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948352943362975805.post1188312712811059671..comments2023-11-02T03:08:07.417-07:00Comments on NephiCode: Where Are the Land of Promise Horses? – Part VDelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08982095508142923740noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948352943362975805.post-16740199763047566492018-10-09T17:33:01.652-07:002018-10-09T17:33:01.652-07:00C.Joe: John Paul Jones did indeed die on July 18, ...C.Joe: John Paul Jones did indeed die on July 18, 1792, at the age of 45 in his 3rd floor apartment in Paris. The attack on Washington in August of 1814, occupying the city for 26 hours burning many government buildings as well as the White House, which the British claimed had been burned in retaliation for Americans attack on Port Dover, Canada, along the shores of Lake Erie, which the British viewed as “wanton destruction of private property. <br />The source I used for the event was obviously wrong in the “official British stand,” but others laid claim to the fact that the British never got over “an American warship sailing clear across the Atlantic to attack British ports”, however, Jones actually set sail from Brest, France, to attack English shipping in the Irish Sea, and the North Channel. That Jones succeeded in these attempts, and make landfall to destroy Whitehaven (which he did not achieve), cut the English to the core. Their uproar so upset the government, who in turn upset the Royal Navy, that Jones was seen as a irreparable thorn in their side. <br />Thus, in 1814 when the British landed in Chesapeake Bay and attacked toward Washington they operated under the orders from the Crown to destroy everything they encountered, and kill all but unarmed non-combatants. <br />For John Paul Jones, he was given an honorary pardon in 1999 by the Port of Whitehaven for his raid on the town.<br />Delhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08982095508142923740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948352943362975805.post-59387229299757374242018-10-05T18:50:38.694-07:002018-10-05T18:50:38.694-07:00thanks much del great post however john paul jones...thanks much del great post however john paul jones died in 1792 if my memory is correct<br />charlesjoelummus@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12671953083491002193noreply@blogger.com