and this:
"The prospect of service in the Russian Navy as a rear admiral now arose. Jones asserted that he would never renounce the glorious title of citizen of the United States. But men no less astute than Thomas Jefferson and George Washington seemed to think that employment in Russia, in the absence of any at home, would qualify him, in case of need, for still higher professional duties.
Arriving in Russia in April 1788, Jones was given command of a squadron in the Black Sea for a campaign against the Turks. Jones's grim dedication to his professional duties resulted in victories scarcely less daring and strategic than those in the American Revolution. It was primarily his operations that saved Kherson and the Crimea and decided the successful outcome of the war.
While he won the battles, however, his colleagues usurped the honors. “The first duty of a gentleman is to respect his own character,” he wrote in explanation of his aloofness from the deceit that surrounded him. “I saw that I must conquer or die,” he stated on his early recognition of the ineptitude as well as the villainy to which he was exposed. The intrigue against him grew, both professional and personal, including a baseless charge of moral turpitude, and Jones left Russia for France. Becoming progressively ill in Paris, Jones died there on July 18, 1792."
He of course had to go somewhere else because we disestablished our Navy after the Revolution. Probrably almost single handedly caused by that weenie Thomas Jefferson and his cowardly isolationist ways.
