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Title: To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the ...
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new
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Whipple's rousing narrative is filled with fascinating personalities. In addition to Jefferson, there is Commodore Edward Preble, the quarter-deck tyrant who commanded the first naval forces into battle; the bold junior officer Stephen Decatur; the tyrannical bashaw, Yusuf Karamanli; William Eaton, an early-day Lawrence of Arabia; Marine lieutenant Presley O'Bannon; and a host of others.
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