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The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa
The End of Barbary Terror America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa
Author: Frederick C. Leiner
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 D...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195189940
ISBN-10: 0195189949
Publication Date: 3/7/2006
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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