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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli pirates : the forgotten war that changed American history / Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger

By:

Kilmeade, Brian

Contributor(s):

Yaeger, Don

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC , 2015Description: 238 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781591848066

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.4 KIL

LOC classification:

E335 .K55 2015

Summary: The little-known story of Thomas Jefferson's battle to defend America against Islamic pirates. Kilmeade and Yeager recount the dramatic events building up to this forgotten war against the Tripoli pirates and the heroics that led to its resolution. They tell the story of a 25 year-old sailor named Stephen Decatur who sailed into the enemy harbour, his boat disguised as a Maltese merchant ship, and William Eaton who led Marines on a 500 mile trek across the desert to surprise the port of Derna.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	973.4 KIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		059663

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Previous	973.099 GOO Leadership in turbulent times	973.2 LEP The name of war : King Philip's War and the origins of American identity	973.3 MCC 1776	973.4 KIL Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli pirates : the forgotten war that changed American history	973.4 WOO Empire of liberty : a history of the early Republic, 1789-1815	973.5 HAH A nation without borders : the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830 - 1910	973.62 GRE A wicked war : Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. invasion of Mexico	Next

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The little-known story of Thomas Jefferson's battle to defend America against Islamic pirates. Kilmeade and Yeager recount the dramatic events building up to this forgotten war against the Tripoli pirates and the heroics that led to its resolution. They tell the story of a 25 year-old sailor named Stephen Decatur who sailed into the enemy harbour, his boat disguised as a Maltese merchant ship, and William Eaton who led Marines on a 500 mile trek across the desert to surprise the port of Derna.

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