🚨 SPECIAL PREVIEW:

This special preview episode offers an exclusive look into our upcoming investigation into the legend of John Paul Jones. The full episode drops on September 30 in celebration of International Podcast Day!

Lying beneath the United States Naval Academy Chapel in a marble sarcophagus sits the body of John Paul Jones. Midshipmen are taught to revere him as the Father of the Navy, yet the reality behind his legend is far more complex, flawed, and politically constructed.

In this special preview episode, host Captain Tim "Lucky" Kinsella traces Jones’s journey from a humble gardener's son on the Solway Firth to an ambitious merchant master, a fugitive running from mutiny and murder charges in the Caribbean, and finally a daring Continental Navy officer who took the American Revolutionary War directly to English shores. Preview the dramatic battle off Flamborough Head aboard the Bonhomme Richard, the questionable origin of his famous battle cry "I have not yet begun to fight," and his tragic, obscure death in Paris. Finally, explore how Ambassador Horace Porter spent six years of his own money searching for Jones's lost grave and how President Theodore Roosevelt transformed a deeply flawed Scotsman into an immortal archetype to build support for a modern U.S. battle fleet.

Be sure to tune in on September 30 (International Podcast Day) for the complete, unabridged story!

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