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The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, And the Secret Mission of 1805, Library Edition
The Pirate Coast Thomas Jefferson the First Marines And the Secret Mission of 1805 Library Edition Author:Richard Zacks In the first U.S. covert mission to overthrow a foreign nation, President Jefferson dispatched an unlikely diplomat, forty-year-old William Eaton, to Tripoli to free three hundred American hostages. Eaton achieved a remarkable victory on “the shores of Tripoli,” but for him, the aftermath was not so sweet.