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Date: Monday, January 1, 2001 
Question/Topic: Serapis battleship Revolutionary War Bonhomme Richard - John Paul Jones - Quote 
Answer/Pointer: Serapis was a British battleship during the U.S. Revolutionary War, which fought the U.S. ship Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones. This was the battle in which Jones said, "I have not yet begun to fight." Source: Encyclopoedia of American History, by Richard B. Morris. Enlarged and Updated Edition R 973.03 Mor, p. 102 See also biographies of John Paul Jones 
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