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 Revolution, and by their pluck and skill captured the munitions of war that enabled Washington to win at last, were trained on the decks of slavers. And John—Paul Jones, one of the "true sea-kings, whose claim to the title lies in the qualities of the head as well as of the heart," came through the forecastle of the slaver King George to hoist the first American naval ensign above the quarter-deck of the first American flag-ship.