John Paul Jones Memorial
[North Face inscriptions - above and beneath Captain Jones' statue:]
John Paul Jones
1747-1792
First to compel foreign man-of-war to strike colors to the Stars and Stripes.
[South Face inscriptions - above and beneath a bas relief rendering of Captain Jones raising the United States colors for the first time aboard an American man-o-war:]
"Surrender?
I have not yet begun to fight!"
In life he honored the flag.
In death the flag shall honor him.
Marker is at the intersection of 17th Street, SW and Independence Avenue, SW, on the left when traveling south on 17th Street, SW.
Courtesy hmdb.org
