9781613747308-1613747306-The Admiral and the Ambassador: One Man's Obsessive Search for the Body of John Paul Jones

The Admiral and the Ambassador: One Man's Obsessive Search for the Body of John Paul Jones

ISBN-13: 9781613747308
ISBN-10: 1613747306
Edition: First Edition
Author: Scott Martelle
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781613747308
ISBN-10: 1613747306
Edition: First Edition
Author: Scott Martelle
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover 288 pages

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The Admiral and the Ambassador: One Man's Obsessive Search for the Body of John Paul Jones (ISBN-13: 9781613747308 and ISBN-10: 1613747306), written by authors Scott Martelle, was published by Chicago Review Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical, Political, Leaders & Notable People, Revolution & Founding, United States History, France, European History, Naval, Military History, World History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Admiral and the Ambassador: One Man's Obsessive Search for the Body of John Paul Jones (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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As the French Revolution gathered steam, the exact location of Jones’s grave—and, in fact, the exact location of St. Louis cemetery in Paris, where he was buried in 1792—was forgotten: information on his death and burial were destroyed in the Paris Commune and the few who had attended his burial had passed away. His body had, though, been preserved in a lead-lined coffin filled with alcohol; theoretically, if the coffin could be located, Jones could be returned to the United States for proper burial. The Admiral and the Ambassador details Porter’s long, unrelenting search for that coffin, first through scraps of archive material and written recollections of funeral attendees, and then beneath the rickety buildings that had been constructed over what he believed to be the graveyard. This book, the only full-length account of the search for and discovery of John Paul Jones’s body, offers a fascinating look into the charismatic, real-life characters who populated the first century of the United States of America.

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