Paul Jones 1792 Swiss Flag Art conscripted onto the Van Buren

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A portrait of the Union's blunt instrument at the precise hinge of his fame — Appomattox barely cooled

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Paul Jones 1792 Swiss Flag Art conscripted onto the Van BurenPaul Jones 1792 a posthumous engraving of the Scottish born captain whose name the Royal Navy spat and the Continental Congress canonized, rendered four years after his Paris death with the lingering smoke of the Bonhomme Richard still clinging to the line work. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic