John Paul Jones: Navy Daddy

This week we have one of the best naval commanders that Scotland ever produced. Well, he was born there and cut his teeth in the Colonies. Unfortunately part of his learning experience was as a member of a slave ship called Two Friends which is probably not the best name for a ship like that. He quickly realized this wasn’t for him and after self-defensing a crew member of a different ship he was running, he went back to Virginia just in time for the Battle of Lexington and Concord. That’s not his scene, so he became the Boogeyman of the Sea. When someone in Congress said they wanted to take the fight to the British, John Paul Jones, may have taken that a bit too literally. Batten down the hatches, set sails and swab your poop-deck, this ones gonna be fun. For a while at least…