The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa

When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy. But when these efforts failed, he 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.Drawin...
By Frederick C. Leiner
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (May 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195189949
ISBN-13: 978-0195189940
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 1 x 6.3 inches
Format: PDF ePub djvu ebook
Reviews:
A good object lesson to people who think that you can appease or negotiate with bullies. The USA was a little country that had just gone through three years of war with Great Britain, a mighty sea and financial power. Most European coutries simply paid annual extortion fees to the pirates to protect...
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