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Bookmark or Share- John Paul Jones in Battle, 1779 - EyeWitness to History"I have not yet begun to fight!" This was the immortal retort of Captain John Paul Jones to a request to surrender as he and his crew engaged in a desperate battle with a British frigate off the northern coast of England during the American Revolution.
- John Paul Jones - Biography, Revolutionary War & Facts | HISTORYLegend has it that when the British asked if Jones was ready to surrender, he famously responded: “I have not yet begun to fight!” After one of Jones’ naval officers tossed a grenade onto...
- John Paul Jones - WikipediaQuickly recognizing that he could not win a battle of big guns, and with the wind dying, Jones made every effort to lock Richard and Serapis together (his famous, albeit apocryphal, quotation, "I have not yet begun to fight!" was said to have been uttered in reply to a demand to surrender in this phase of the battle).
- John Paul Jones wins in English waters - HISTORYFrom his disabled ship, Jones replied, “I have not yet begun to fight,” and after three more hours of furious fighting it was the Serapis and Countess of Scarborough that surrendered.
- The Real Immortal Words of John Paul JonesNevertheless, and all other accounts notwithstanding, Dale’s “had not yet begun to fight” was a great, eminently catchy phrase. Possibly parroting Dale and Sherburne, in 1848, author Edward Hamilton wrote that Jones replied “I have not yet begun to fight!” in his “Life of Paul Jones.”
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