While the immortal distinction of being the first man to hoist our national colors aboard an American warship belongs to Captain Jones, the by no means small honor of showing the American flag for the first time on a regularly commissioned American warship in European waters belongs to Captain Lambert Wickes, who crossed the Atlantic in the sixteen-gun war brig _Reprisal_. Lambert made a cruise in the Bay of Biscay, and in two circuits of Ireland took some twenty prizes. Nor should the daring cruises of Captain Gustavus Conyngham in the _Surprise_ be overlooked. One year before Captain Jones appeared on the other side of the Atlantic as commander of an American warship, Conyngham scoured the coast of England and picked up prizes in the very chops of the English Channel. Our commissioner in Europe, Silas Deane, wrote: “Conyngham, by his first and second bold expeditions, is become the terror of all the eastern coast of England and Scotland, and is more dreaded than Thurot was in the late war.” Then there were Captains Thomas Thompson and Elisha Hinman, who one year before Captain Jones’ appearance in English waters, executed a dash against a British fleet which is second in audacity only to Jones’ attack on the British fleet off Spurn Head. On the night of September 2, 1777, the thirty-two-gun frigate _Raleigh_, and the twenty-four-gun ship _Alfred_, commanded by Captains Thompson and Hinman, while on their way across the ocean, discovered a fleet of merchantmen, escorted by four British warships, among them the _Druid_. Availing himself of the cover of night, Thompson worked his way into the fleet undetected, and getting alongside the _Druid_ opened a terrific fire on her so that in a short time she was reduced to a sinking condition. Realizing the folly of fighting the combined escort, Thompson then made good his escape, and arrived safely in France with the _Raleigh_ and _Alfred_. Nor should the daring of an American privateer be overlooked, which, very much after the manner of Jones at Whitehaven, sent a force of men ashore on English soil and made prisoners of a lieutenant and an adjutant of a British regiment, as the following extract from the private letter of an English gentleman will show: “An American privateer of twelve guns came into this road [Guernsey] yesterday morning, tacked about on the firing of guns from the castle, and, just off the island, took a large brig bound for this port, which they have since carried into Cherbourg. She had the impudence to send her boat in the dusk of the evening to a little island off here called Jetto, and unluckily carried off the lieutenant of Northley’s Independent Company with the adjutant, who were shooting rabbits for their diversion.”