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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 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. — Drawing upon numerous ship logs, jou...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195325409
ISBN-10: 0195325400
Publication Date: 6/11/2007
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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