PAUL JONES OFF FLAMBRO' 335 



Invalides. At night the body was taken from Paris to 

 Cherbourg and placed on board the flagship Brooklyn, 

 which conveyed it to America. With impressive naval 

 ceremonies the Father of the American Navy was re- 

 interred at Annapolis, and there he rests regarded by 

 many as a very ordinary privateer and by many others 

 as a man whose life was spent in fighting valiantly for 

 the cause of liberty. 



