The following was posted by the Russian Embassy in Washington on July 6, but the United States didn’t bother to note the happy event of its hero: https://www.facebook.com/RusEmbUSA/posts/1632136896996694
July 6, 2021
Happy birthday to John Paul Jones!
America’s greatest Revolutionary naval commander
Russian Rear Admiral (https://bit.ly/2u1m1UZ)
On this day in 1747, John Paul Jones, a hero of the U.S. War of Independence, Rear Admiral of the Russian Navy, friend of A.V. Suvorov, was born in Scotland.
Embassy diplomats laid flowers at the monument to the outstanding naval commander in Washington today.
According to the U.S. Navy biography of him, in 1788, Russian Empress Katherine the Great appointed Jones rear admiral in the Russian navy, in which he saw action in the Liman campaign in the Black Sea. He left Russian service the next year and moved to Paris where he died in 1792. In 1905 his body was moved to the U.S. where he is buried at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
RT has a lively biography of Aleksandr Suvorov in https://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/military/aleksandr-suvorov/
