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Identifier: johnpauljoneslas00mari (find matches)
Title: John Paul Jones' last cruise and final resting place the United States Naval academy
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Marion, H. (Henri), 1857-1913
Subjects: Jones, John Paul. 1747-1792 United States Naval Academy
Publisher: Washington, D.C., G. E. Howard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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all in which are niches to serve as tombs forthe bodies of eminent naval commanders. The sarcophagus of John Paul Jones will here be placed inplain view upon a pedestal with battle-flags and captured colorsaround it. ( As Napoleon lies in state under the dome of theInvalides in Paris, as Grant reposes in the Riverside Monumenton the banks of the Hudson, as Nelson rests in St. Pauls Cathe-dral in London, so Paul Jones will have his final resting place be-neath the dome of the beautiful Memorial Chapel of the NavalAcademy, which will be one of the most impressive monumentsof America and an everlasting inspiration to the future genera-tions of American naval officers. When the government has expended the ten million dollarsappropriated for the new naval school and the rebuilding schemehas been carried out, there will stand at the junction of theSevern River and Chesapeake Bay the finest and most completelyequipped naval school of the world, the just pride and boast of theAmerican nation.
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THE NAVAL ACADEMY PRACTICE SHIP SEVERN, FORMERLY THE CHESAPEAKEUNDER FULL SAIL Proposed Programme of the Commemoration Exercises in Honor of John Paul Jones, April 24, 1906 The exercises will be held at 2 P. M. April 24th, in the Armoryof the Naval Academy, which is one of the largest and finestbuildings of its kind in the world, and which can easily holdseveral thousand people. In the centre of the Armory will be erected a platform for theorators of the occasion and the body of Paul Jones will be trans-ferred from the temporary vault, previous to the ceremonies, andplaced in front of the stand. The floor of the Armory will bedivided into sections and lettered; the center section to be reservedfor the most distinguished guests and the wing sections for otherdistinguished guests. Galleries to be occupied by all others. Thesections will be lettered and tickets issued with letters corres-ponding to the sections to which guests are to go. The Secretary of the Navy, Charles J. Bonaparte, w

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