When the United States invaded England

I have enjoyed most of this guy's presentations, but this one seriously went off the rails. The United States didn't invade England. The US didn't exist when John Paul raided the English coast. No, not just Whitehaven. He circumnavigated the main island of Britain raiding several ports. And he was acting on his initiative, not at the behest of the Colonial government. Also, he wasn't the only Colonial warship captain who enjoyed success. Indeed, many were more famous than he. In fact, his raid on England was made because he was frustrated in his attempts to find a French sponsor who would give him a suitable warship as they had given to more famous (successful) Colonial captains. Under Benjamin Franklin's tutelage, he also tried bedding the wife of rich men who might honor his with a mighty warship (so that the husband wouldn't be embarrassed by having his wife in bed with a poor colonial seaman, but Jones kept wooing the wrong women). So, he took the small warship, the schooner Ranger, and went raiding. He was famous when he returned to France because he had demonstrated that the vaunted English "Oaken Shield" (the British Navy) wasn't as fearful as everyone thought. Thus, the French and Spanish launched a joint armada to invade England with John Paul in charge of the warships in the armada. When the armada arrived off the English coast, the British navy refused to come out of port and engage it, and the commander of the troop ships refused to put his troops ashore until Jones destroyed the English navy. Disease broke out on the troop ships and they sailed back to France and England without invading, leaving John Paul and his flagship, the Bon Homme Richard, and a couple of consorts to roam off shore looking for a battle. And, as must be obvious, this is not a "forgotten moment in history..."

Considering we had a small navy, we saw our share of naval wins with John Paul Jones, Great Lakes, and Old Ironside.

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