The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805
by:
Richard Zacks (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781401308490 (140130849X)
ASIN: 140130849X
Publish date: May 31st 2006
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
Africa,
War,
Military,
Politics,
American History,
Pirates,
Military History,
Presidents
Chock full of early american history. Story follows William Eaton, who was trying to pull off some clandestine action in Tripoli on the behalf o the US president. What did I learn? US Marines were a new order and not highly paid or thought of at that time. Most naval officers were teenagers while th...
An ambitious U.S. general/diplomat turns guerilla warlord and takes a troop of the newly-minted U.S. Marines with Arab mercenaries into North Africa to wage a private war with the local tribal rulers in an effort to rescue captured American sailors in a very Lawrence of Arabia way. The U.S. governme...
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