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Jefferson s War
Author | : Joseph Wheelan |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2004-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786740208 |
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Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America's war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations that support it. The Barbary pirates, a Muslim enemy from Tripoli, attacked European and American merchant shipping with impunity. Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy to Tripoli in 1801 to repel "force with force." The Barbary War was also a proving ground for such young officers as William Bainbridge, Stephen Decatur, Isaac Hull, and David Porter -- key players in the impending War of 1812 against Great Britain.
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
Author | : Brian Kilmeade,Don Yaeger |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780698197411 |
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“Another 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.” —Brad Thor This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America’s third 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 Africa’s Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors and held them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute payments far beyond what the new country could 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 justified the plunder and enslavement of non-Muslims. These rogue states would show no mercy—at least 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. Navy’s new warships and a detachment of Marines to blockade Tripoli—launching the Barbary Wars and beginning America’s journey toward future superpower status. As they did in their previous bestseller, George Washington’s Secret Six, Kilmeade and Yaeger have transformed a nearly forgotten slice of history into a dramatic story that will keep you turning the pages to find out what happens next. Among the many suspenseful episodes: ·Lieutenant Andrew Sterett’s ferocious cannon battle on the high seas against the treacherous pirate ship Tripoli. ·Lieutenant Stephen Decatur’s daring night raid of an enemy harbor, with the aim of destroying an American ship that had fallen into the pirates’ hands. ·General William Eaton’s unprecedented 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: “From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli, we fight our country’s battles in the air, on land and sea.” Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates recaptures this forgotten war that changed American history with a real-life drama of intrigue, bravery, and battle on the high seas.
Victory in Tripoli
Author | : Joshua London |
Publsiher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2011-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781118039847 |
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At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected U.S. president was forced to confront an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim terrorists sworn to carry out jihad against all Western powers. As timely and familiar as these events may seem, they occurred more than two centuries ago. The president was Thomas Jefferson, and the terrorists were the Barbary pirates. Victory in Tripoli recounts the untold story of one of the defining challenges overcome by the young U.S. republic. This fast-moving and dramatic tale examines the events that gave birth to the Navy and the Marines and re-creates the startling political, diplomatic, and military battles that were central to the conflict. This highly interesting and informative history offers deep insight into issues that remain fundamental to U.S. foreign policy decisions to this day.
Jefferson s Empire
Author | : Peter S. Onuf |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813922046 |
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Thomas Jefferson believed that the American revolution was atransformative moment in the history of political civilization. He hoped that hisown efforts as a founding statesman and theorist would help construct a progressiveand enlightened order for the new American nation that would be a model andinspiration for the world. Peter S. Onuf's new book traces Jefferson's vision of theAmerican future to its roots in his idealized notions of nationhood and empire.Onuf's unsettling recognition that Jefferson's famed egalitarianism was elaboratedin an imperial context yields strikingly original interpretations of our nationalidentity and our ideas of race, of westward expansion and the Civil War, and ofAmerican global dominance in the twentiethcentury. Jefferson's vision of an American "empirefor liberty" was modeled on a British prototype. But as a consensual union ofself-governing republics without a metropolis, Jefferson's American empire would befree of exploitation by a corrupt imperial ruling class. It would avoid the cycle ofwar and destruction that had characterized the European balance ofpower. The Civil War cast in high relief thetragic limitations of Jefferson's political vision. After the Union victory, as thereconstructed nation-state developed into a world power, dreams of the United Statesas an ever-expanding empire of peacefully coexisting states quickly faded frommemory. Yet even as the antebellum federal union disintegrated, a Jeffersoniannationalism, proudly conscious of America's historic revolution against imperialdomination, grew up in its place. In Onuf's view, Jefferson's quest to define a new American identity also shaped his ambivalentconceptions of slavery and Native American rights. His revolutionary fervor led himto see Indians as "merciless savages" who ravaged the frontiers at the Britishking's direction, but when those frontiers were pacified, a more benevolentJefferson encouraged these same Indians to embrace republican values. AfricanAmerican slaves, by contrast, constituted an unassimilable captive nation, unjustlywrenched from its African homeland. His great panacea: colonization. Jefferson's ideas about race revealthe limitations of his conception of American nationhood. Yet, as Onuf strikinglydocuments, Jefferson's vision of a republican empire--a regime of peace, prosperity, and union without coercion--continues to define and expand the boundaries ofAmerican national identity.
The Galactic Silver Star
Author | : Kevin D. Randle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
ISBN | : OCLC:270868050 |
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The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis
Author | : Donald E. Collins |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0742543048 |
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When the Civil War ended, Jefferson Davis had fallen from the heights of popularity to the depths of despair. In this fascinating new book, Donald E. Collins explores the resurrection of Davis to heroic status in the hearts of white Southerners culminating in one of the grandest funeral processions the nation had ever seen. As schools closed and bells tolled along the thousand mile route, Southerners appeared en masse to bid a final farewell to the man who championed Southern secession and ardently defended the Confederacy.
Death of a Regiment
Author | : Kevin D. Randle |
Publsiher | : Speaking Volumes |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781645408574 |
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ALL-ACTION SPACE COMBAT SERIES JEFFERSON'S WAR DEATH OF A REGIMENT The aliens have a savage death fleet. But Earth has a secret weapon named Jefferson... LAST STAND At a distant outpost on the frontier of space, a war has begun. A remorseless alien race has attacked the valiant Eighth Interplanetary Infantry Regiment—annihilated their fleet, destroyed their communications, and targeted the survivors in a ruthless death hunt. LAST CHANCE Speeding toward the Eighth's embattled outpost, young Colonel David Steven Jefferson and his U.S. Space Infantry battle group have only one chance to complete their mission. If they fail, the hostile alien fleet will advance full force to its next inevitable target: planet Earth. DEATH OF A REGIMENT JEFFERSON'S WAR "AN ACTION-PACKED SAGA!" —Booklist "BRISK...LIVELY."— Chicago Sun-Times AN EXCELLENT WRITER...ENJOYABLE AND SATISFYING." —Rave Reviews
Jefferson against Madison s War being an exhibition of the late President Jefferson s opinions of the impolicy of all wars together with some remarks on the present war and the propriety of choosing electors who will vote for a Peace President By a True Republican
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0023272164 |
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