https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.16378b18bdf3
From the stuff you didn't know about box.
this is jaw dropping stuff.
In the hopes of antagonizing the British, Capt. John Paul Jones hatches a plan to land at a british port, and set fire to the ships and spike the cannons.
yes, the very same captain Jones — the Revolutionary War hero most famous for the vow “I have not yet begun to fight!”
what a crazy ass captain to pull such a stunt. it didn't work, but it did do one thing, start the ball rolling on ending the colonial war in america. the war was very unpopular in Britain.