The pirate coast : Thomas Jefferson, the first marines, and the secret mission of 1805 /
After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured three hundred U.S. sailors and marines. President Jefferson sent out navy squadrons, but he also authorized a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. He chose an unlikely diplomat, William Eaton, to lead...
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Ashland, OR :
Blackstone Audiobooks,
[2005]
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