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Jones was overwhelmed with praise and flattery from 

 Franklin, Congress, and other sources. The King of 

 France gave him a sword and made him a knight of 

 the Order of Merit ; the Danish monarch conferred a 

 pension upon him, which, however, Jones seems to have 

 been left to raise himself, and the Emperor of Russia 

 decorated him with the ribbon of St. Anne. Finally 

 Jones entered the Russian naval service and became a 

 rear-admiral. Early in May 1790 a contemporary 

 letter stated that the " noted Paul Jones" landed at 

 Harwich from a packet-boat. He was dressed as a 

 Russian admiral, and was not recognised until his name 

 was seen on packages at the custom-house ; then there 

 was such a hostile demonstration by the people who 

 surrounded the inn where he was staying that Jones 

 secretly escaped from the town the same day he landed. 

 He died in Paris in 1792, in his forty-fifth year, neglected 

 and almost forgotten, and was buried in an obscure 

 cemetery. 



The generations passed, and Jones became known as 

 "the Father of the American Navy." Measures were 

 taken to identify his resting-place, and this at last was 

 found, mostly through the exertions of General Horace 

 Porter, United States Ambassador to France. Jones 

 had been buried in the old St. Louis Cemetery, and 

 his remains were exhumed on ist April 1905, and 

 preparations made to transfer them to America. On 

 6th July dense crowds witnessed the arrival in Paris 

 of 508 American sailors and marines from four war- 

 ships which had reached Cherbourg. They escorted 

 the body from the American Episcopal Church, 

 where it had lain since its discovery, to the Gare des 



