Episode 223 - The First Barbary War
America scrapes together the US Navy to go fight …
August 29, 20221h 30mExplicit
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Show Notes
America scrapes together the US Navy to go fight pirates on the other side of the world. They accomplish almost nothing and then go home.
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Sources:
Wheelan, Joseph (2003), Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801–1805
Zacks, Richard (2005), The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/barbary-wars/first-barbary-war/
https://www.historynet.com/tripoli-pirates-foiled/