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.

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. Unpack 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 y ...