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8220Anther blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and
the Tripoli Pirates reads like an
edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You
will love this book and also wonder why so few
people know this story. No one captures the
danger, intrigue, and drama of the American
Revolution and its aftermath like Brian Kilmeade
and Don Yaeger.82218212Brd ThorThis is
the little-known story of how a newly
indepen173den nation was challenged by four
Muslim powers and what happened
when America8217sthird president decided to
stand up to intimidation.When Thomas Jefferson
became president in 1801, America faced a crisis.
The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its
economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships
were under attack. Pirates from
North Africa8217sBarbary coast routinely
captured American sailors and held them as
slaves, demanding ransom and tribute payments far
beyond what the new coun173trycould afford.Over
the previous fifteen years, as a diplomat and
then as secretary of state, Jefferson had tried
to work with the Barbary states (Tripoli, Tunis,
Algiers, and Morocco). Unfortunately, he found it
impossible to negotiate with people who believed
their religion jus173tifed the plunder
and enslavement of non-Muslims. These rogue
states would show no mercy8212atleast not while
easy money could be made by extorting the Western
powers. So President Jefferson decided to move
beyond diplomacy. He sent the U.S. Navy8217snew
warships and a detachment of Marines to blockade
Tripoli8212lanching the Barbary Wars
and beginning America8217sjourney toward future
superpower status.As they did in their previous
bestseller, George Washington8217sSecret Six,
Kilmeade and Yaeger have transformed a nearly
forgotten slice of history into a dramatic
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story that will keep you turning the pages to
find out what happens next. Among the many
sus173peneful episodes 183Lietenant Andrew
Sterett8217sferocious cannon battle on the high
seas against the treacherous pirate
ship Tripoli.183Lietenant Stephen
Decatur8217sdaring night raid of an enemy
harbor, with the aim of destroying an American
ship that had fallen into the
pirates8217hands.183Genral William
Eaton8217sunprecedented five-hundred-mile land
march from Egypt to the port of Derne, where the
Marines launched a surprise attack and an
American flag was raised in victory on foreign
soil for the first time.Few today remember these
men and other heroes who inspired the Marine
Corps hymn 8220Frm the Halls of Montezuma to
the Shores of Tripoli, we fight our
country8217sbattles in the air, on land
and sea.8221Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli
Pirates recaptures this forgot173tenwar that
changed American history with a real-life drama
of intrigue, bravery, and battle on the high seas.
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates The
Forgotten War That Changed American History