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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Zacks, Richard. Pirate coast. New York : Hyperion, c2005 (OCoLC)607694743 Online version: Zacks, Richard. Pirate coast. New York : Hyperion, c2005 (OCoLC)609190090 |
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| Named Person: | Thomas Jefferson; William Eaton; Thomas Jefferson |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Zacks |
| ISBN: | 1401300030 9781401300036 |
| OCLC Number: | 56922429 |
| Description: | viii, 432 p., [8] p. of plates : ill, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Tripoli -- Washington City -- American slaves in Tripoli City -- Home : New England roots -- Tripoli : Decatur's raid -- Alone at sea -- Yussef -- The mission : Eaton unleashed -- Hunting Hamet in Egypt -- White Christmas in Tripoli -- Reeling in Hamet -- Preparing for war : fresh enemies and money, money, money -- The desert -- Tobias Lear : peace at any cost -- An American flag on foreign soil -- Malta : diseased liver and cold feet -- Tripoli : fear -- Tripoli Harbor : Lear to the rescue -- Derne : defiance -- Tripoli : Peace? Freedom? Honor? -- Derne : from a kingdom to a beggary? -- Tripoli : Lear pays -- Wounded and restless -- Homecoming -- Jefferson vs. Eaton -- Burr, bottle, and six feet under. |
| Responsibility: | Richard Zacks. |
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Abstract:
In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out in 1805 on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, but at the last moment he grew wary of "intermeddling" in a foreign government, and Eaton set off without national support. Short on supplies, given very little money and only a few men, Eaton's mission seemed doomed from the start. But he improbably triumphed, recruiting a band of European mercenaries in Alexandria, along with some Arab cavalry and Bedouin fighters, and leading them on a march across the Libyan Desert. The success of the event is immortalized in the Marines' Hymn, but Jefferson never allowed Eaton the fame he craved.--From publisher description.
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- United States -- History -- Tripolitan War, 1801-1805.
- Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826.
- United States -- History -- Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 -- Underground movements.
- United States -- History -- Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 -- Naval operations.
- Pirates -- Africa, North -- History -- 19th century.
- Eaton, William, -- 1764-1811.
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Tripolitan war (1801-1805)
- Geheimkrieg
- Geschichte 1805.
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