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| 材料类型: | 互联网资源 |
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| 文件类型: | 书, 互联网资源 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Frederick C Leiner |
| ISBN: | 0195189949 9780195189940 0195325400 9780195325409 |
| OCLC号码: | 61758540 |
| 描述: | vii, 239 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| 内容: | The odyssey of the Edwin -- At war with Algiers -- Fitting out the squadrons -- Mediterranean triumph -- Unfinished business -- The return -- The British bombardment and an "occular demonstration" -- Epilogue -- Appendices : 1. The Navy's April 15, 1815, order to Commodore Stephen Decatur -- 2. W.D. Robinson's May 9, 1815, memorandum to William Shaler -- 3. Treaty between the United States and the Dey of Algiers, June 30, 1815. |
| 责任: | by Frederick C. Leiner. |
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"The book recounts a stunning military success. With a mix of bravery and luck, Decatur defeated two enemy ships on his way to Algiers. Within 48 hours of arriving on the shore of the most powerful Barbary state, Decatur was able to force peace on American terms ('dictated at the mouths of our cannon, ' as he later said). The U.S.'s infant Navy had scored a victory that had eluded European powers for nearly three centuries."--Jonathan Karl, Wall Street Journal
"A fascinating account of what popular historians now refer to as America's first war against state-sponsored terrorism.... Leiner, drawing on everything from ship logs, journals, and love letters to published papers and official documents, writes of the squadron of ten ships that sailed into Barbary territory on June 17, 1815, and--in quick succession--defeated or captured the opposing Algerine warships."--Library Journal
"Frederick C. Leiner's dramatic history of Stephen Decatur's mission to Algiers, Tunis, and
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