David Porter, Philadelphia & The Barbary Pirates: Lieutenant Porter on the Shores of Tripoli

by Owen, Jack M. D.
ISBN: 9780938673149
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One halloween the US Navy would like to forget, played a terrible trick on LIEUTENANT DAVID PORTER, in 1803. He, along with 306 other shipmates aboard the 38-gun frigate USS Philedelphia, including Captain William Bainbridge, were caught by pirates at Tripoli It took guile and courage to free them from their 18-month slavery in the grip of a murdurous, despotic Pasha, and a renegade Scot-turned-Turk pirate. Plus the politicing of a President, Emporer and Pope. It also introduced the United States Marine Corps onto the world stage of battle and bravery. A handful of leathernecks with a raggle-taggle army of camel-drivers and mercenaries, under determined leadership, routed the best the Barbary Coast Pirates could muster. They helped free their comrades, after they marched across a desert, quelled mutinies and meted out frontier justice.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Owen, Jack M. D.
  • ISBN: 9780938673149
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 0.81
  • Number Of Pages: 362
  • Publication Year: 2015
Language: English