NATHANAEL GREENE: Fiske, Irving's _Washington_, 430-456; Francis V. Greene, _General Greene_, 1-22, 94-105, 160-262; Frost, _Heroes of the Revolution_, 27-75. DANIEL MORGAN: Blaisdell and Ball, _Hero Stories from American History_, 105-122; Brooks, _Century Book of the American Revolution_, 168-173; Frost, _Heroes of the Revolution_, 76-89. FRANCIS MARION: McCrady, _South Carolina in the Revolution_, 568-572, 577-652, 660-672, 748-752, 816-881. THE MEN WHO HELPED WIN INDEPENDENCE BY FIGHTING ENGLAND ON THE SEA JOHN PAUL JONES, A SCOTCHMAN, WHO WON THE GREAT VICTORY IN THE FRENCH SHIP, "BON HOMME RICHARD" [Sidenote: =John Paul born in Scotland=] =100. John Paul.= In 1747, in far-away Scotland, on the arm of the sea called Solway Firth, a great sailor was born. John Paul played along the seashore, saw tall ships, and heard wonderful stories of a new land called America, whose ships filled with tobacco came into the firth. [Sidenote: =Sails on the "Friendship" to America=] John Paul did not get much schooling, and at the age of thirteen he went as a sailor lad on the _Friendship_ to America. The ship sailed into Chesapeake Bay and up the Rappahannock River to the town of Fredericksburg, where he found his brother William living on a plantation. In the very same town where George Washington had just been to school, John Paul also went to school. He studied hard to make up for lost time, and left a great name among the boys. [Sidenote: =Returns and sails for Africa=] He afterward returned to Scotland, and at the age of nineteen sailed as an officer on a slave-trading ship to Africa, and carried a load of negroes away from their native land. Many people did not then think it wrong to do this, but John Paul hated the cruel business, and left the slave ship as soon as he reached Jamaica. [Sidenote: =Made captain=] On his way back to Scotland the officers of the ship died, and John Paul, although but twenty years old, had to take charge. The owners of the vessel were so pleased with the way he handled it that they made him captain, and he went on many voyages to different countries. [Sidenote: =In Virginia again=] After a time John Paul went to Virginia to take care of his dead brother's plantation. While he was living in Virginia he watched the quarrel between England and her colonies break out in open war. [Sidenote: =Offers his services to Congress=] =101. John Paul Jones Enters the American Navy.= He hastened to Philadelphia and offered his services to Congress. He knew England would send thousands of soldiers to America; and that she would send her war ships along our seacoasts and up and down our bays and rivers, to capture and burn our towns. He also knew that the Congress did not own a single war ship when the war began. [Illustration: JOHN PAUL JONES _From a painting by Charles Wilson Peale in Independence Hall, Philadelphia_]