The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa
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When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen Decatur, to end Barbary terror once and for all.
Drawing upon numerous ship logs, journals, love letters, and government documents... More
Drawing upon numerous ship logs, journals, love letters, and government documents... More
Book Information
Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Paperback |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 256 |
ISBN-10 | 0195325400 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0195325409 |
Publication Date | 06/11/2007 |
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1/27/2013 Jerry Davis said: Leiner is an attorney who has a terrific sense of the complicated legal and military history of the early republic, especially after the second war for American independence.
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