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The end of Barbary terror : America's 1815 war against the pirates of North Africa
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The end of Barbary terror : America's 1815 war against the pirates of North Africa

著者: Frederick C Leiner
出版商: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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"Drawing upon numerous ship logs, journals, love letters, and government documents, Frederick C. Leiner paints a vivid picture of the world of naval officers and diplomats in the early nineteenth century, as he recreates a remarkable and little known episode from the early American republic. Leiner first describes Madison's initial efforts at diplomacy, sending Mordecai Noah to negotiate, reasoning that the Jewish  再读一些...
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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 first book ever written on the fledgling American nation's diplomatic and naval campaign in 1812 to break the Barbary pirates, rogue states of North Africa.  再读一些...

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"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 再读一些...

 
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