Jones is best remembered as the vocalist of the successful 1960s group, Manfred Mann. He was born in Portsmouth, England, and had several top ten hits with Manfred Mann before going solo in the late 1960s. He was less successful without the rest of the band than they were with his replacement, but did have a few hits before attempting to break into acting. His performance opposite model Jean Shrimpton in Privilege (1967) did not bring the hoped-for stardom, and it was not until the 1990s that Jones became a familiar face on television in the children's series, Uncle Jack. In the meantime, he enjoyed a parallel career as presenter of radio programmes focusing mainly on rhythm and blues.
Captain John PaulJones was born John Paul in 1747 in Kirkcudbrightshire on the southern coast of Scotland.
Jones was again left without a command, an unpleasant reminder of his stagnation in Boston from late 1776 until early 1777.
Jones has been quoted as saying, “I have not yet begun to fight.” He then rammed Serapis and tied up to her, his marksmen in the rigging clearing the decks of Serapis' so a boarding party was able to cross to Serapis and effect its capture.
Jones, however, proceeded to fire the ships within his reach; but the inhabitants were by this time alarmed, and hasting to the protection of the port; and he was compelled with his small party to retreat, after having set fire to three ships, one of which only was totally destroyed.
Jones now took the command of the Alliance, the captain of which had been summoned to Paris to answer for his insubordination, in deserting the commodore on the coast of Ireland; but his situation was now perilous in the extreme.
Jones weighed anchor and escaped through the straits of Dover, almost under the eyes of the English men-of-war, all of which had strict orders to secure him, and were, besides, inflamed against him in a high degree from the repeated defeats that British ships had sustained at his hands.
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