To the shores of Tripoli : the birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines /
An often-overlooked yet significant and prophetic event in U.S. history, the Barbary War was America's first battle against an Arab despot and President Thomas Jefferson's first major challenge to U. S. foreign policy. As described by A.B.C. Whipple, it is a great yarn as well as first-rat...
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Annapolis, Md. :
Naval Institute Press,
[2001], ©1991
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