[Footnote 52]: See Appendix No. V.
[Footnote 53]: From my book, American Fights and Fighters.
[Footnote 54]: This sword was, of course, not that presented to him by the King of France. After Jones' death his heirs gave this famous sword to Robert Morris. Morris, in turn, presented it to Commodore John Barry, at that time senior officer of the United States Navy. By him it was bequeathed to his friend Commodore Richard Dale, once of the Bon Homme Richard, and it now remains in the possession of his great-grandson, Mr. Richard Dale, of Philadelphia.
[Footnote 55]: Why a monument has not been erected to Jones I can not understand. It would be a noteworthy object for individual and national effort, and in no better way could we commit ourselves to the fame and achievements of the great captain, and forever stamp with disapproval those calumnies with which envy seeks to sully the name of our first great sailor.
[Footnote 56]: The frontispiece of this volume.
[Footnote 57]: Some of his phrases in his Russian letters remind me of Shakespeare's Henry V.
[Footnote 58]: I have known hundreds of sailors more or less intimately, and I have never met one who might be included in either of those melancholy classes.
[Footnote 59]: Studies in Naval History, by John Knox Laughton, M. A., Professor of Modern History at King's College, London, and Lecturer on Naval History at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, etc., 1887.
[Footnote 60]: July 6, 1900.
[Footnote 61]: Woolsey, International Law, section 144, page 233.