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Author : Charles Henry Smith
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Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book Stephen Decatur and the Suppression of Piracy in the Mediterranean written by Charles Henry Smith and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Henry Smith
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022156142
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Stephen Decatur and the Suppression of Piracy in the Mediterranean written by Charles Henry Smith and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical essay provides an in-depth analysis of the life and career of Stephen Decatur, one of the most important American naval figures of the early 19th century. Smith focuses on Decatur's role in the suppression of piracy in the Mediterranean and evaluates the impact of his actions on American diplomacy and international relations. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Smith offers a nuanced and insightful portrait of a complex and charismatic figure in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Charles Henry Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781332937615
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Stephen Decatur and the Suppression of Piracy in the Mediterranean written by Charles Henry Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stephen Decatur and the Suppression of Piracy in the Mediterranean: An Address at a Meeting of the Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, April 19, A. D. 1900 On the northern coast of Africa, there appeared toward the close of the Middle Ages the four Bar barian States of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, which were ruled for the most part by Chieftains of a singularly ferocious temper. Of one of these it is related that he prided himself on an accomplishment in which practice had given him great skill. It con sisted in leaping onto his horse, and at the same instant, with a single blow of his scimitar, cutting o the head of the groom who was holding the bridle. There was nothing malicious in this. It was simply an eccentric way of releasing the horse for the ride. Under such rulers, piracy was adopted as a State institution, and regarded as a legitimate source of revenue. Said the Dey of Algiers on one occasion, If I were to make peace with every nation, what should I do with my corsairs? My soldiers cannot live on their miserable allowance. During more than three centuries, the pirate ships of the Barbary powers were the scourge of the Medi terranean, where they sometimes cruised in eets of seventy or eighty sail, defying the strongest European navies of the time. Not content with booty secured at sea, they would swoop down on the coast villages of Southern Europe and carry o the inhabitants into - S. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Charles Henry Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9780649248452
Total Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book Stephen Decatur and the Suppression of Piracy in the Mediterranean written by Charles Henry Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Lee Lewis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512803871
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Romantic Decatur written by Charles Lee Lewis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Agnes C. Doyle
Publisher : Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
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Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book A Contribution to the Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy written by Agnes C. Doyle and published by Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press. This book was released on 1906 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 868 pages
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Author : Alfred S. Bradford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0275996859
Total Pages : 225 pages
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Download or read book Flying the Black Flag written by Alfred S. Bradford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many peoples throughout history have fought pirates, writes Alfred Bradford in Flying the Black Flag. Some have lost and some have won. We should learn from their experience. From Odysseus—the original pirate of literature and lore—through Blackbeard and the feared pirates of the Spanish Main, his book reveals the strategies and methods pirates used to cheat, lie, kill, and rob their way into the historical record, wreaking terror in their bloody wakes. The story begins with a discussion of Piracy and the Suppression of Piracy in the Ancient World. It details, for example, how the Illyrians used pirate vessels to try to wrest control of the Adriatic Coast from the mighty Romans, as well as how the intrepid Vikings went from pirate raids to the conquest of parts of Western Europe. Moving into the 17th century and to the New World, Bradford depicts the golden age of the pirates. Here are the Spanish Buccaneers and the fabled Caribbean stronghold of Tortuga. Here are Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, and their fearsome counterparts. But piracy was hardly just a Western phenomenon. The Barbary Pirates looks East to examine the struggle between Christian and Muslim in the Mediterranean, while To the Shores of Tripoli details the American conflict with the Barbary Pirates. It reveals the lessons of a war conducted across a great distance against a nebulous enemy, a war in which victory was achieved only by going after the pirates' sponsor. On the South China Coast, we meet the first Dragon Lady, leader of Chinese pirates. As intriguing as these tales of the past are in and of themselves, the stories and their swashbuckling villains hold lessons for us even today. In Conclusions and Reflections, Bradford gathers all of the chords together, discussing the conditions under which piracy arises, the conditions under which pirates organize and become more powerful, and the methods used to suppress piracy. Finally, he examines similarities between pirates and terrorists—and whether the lessons learned from the wars against pirates of the past might also apply to modern day terrorists.
Author : Frederick C. Leiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198040958
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The End of Barbary Terror written by Frederick C. Leiner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen Decatur, to end Barbary terror once and for all. Drawing upon numerous ship logs, journals, love letters, and government documents, Frederick C. Leiner paints a vivid picture of the world of naval officers and diplomats in the early nineteenth century, as he recreates a remarkable and little known episode from the early American republic. Leiner first describes Madison's initial efforts at diplomacy, sending Mordecai Noah to negotiate. But when the ruler refused to ransom the Americans--"not for two millions of dollars"--Madison declared war and sent a fleet to North Africa. Decatur's squadron dealt quick blows to the Barbary navy, dramatically fighting and capturing two ships. Decatur then sailed to Algiers. He refused to go ashore to negotiate--indeed, he refused to negotiate on any essential point. The ruler of Algiers signed the treaty--in Decatur's words, "dictated at the mouths of our cannon"--in twenty-four hours. The United States would never pay tribute to the Barbary world again, and the captive Americans were set free. Here then is a real-life naval adventure that will thrill fans of Patrick O'Brian, a story of Islamic terrorism, white slavery, poison gas, diplomatic intrigue, and battles with pirates on the high seas.
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Author : Spencer C Tucker
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 161251510X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Stephen Decatur written by Spencer C Tucker and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brave, energetic, intensely patriotic, Stephen Decatur is America's first great naval hero after John Paul Jones. His short and dramatic life is a story of triumph and tragedy told by the noted historian and author of some twenty books, Spencer Tucker. Decatur's raid into Tripoli Harbor in 1804 to burn the Philadelphia, a prized U.S. warship captured when it ran aground during the Barbary Wars, earned him international fame. An admiring Horatio Nelson described the feat as "the most bold and daring act of the age." Explaining the tremendous impact Decatur's action had on the early U.S. Navy, the author notes that it set a standard of audacity and courage for generations of future naval officers. At the age of twenty-five, Decatur was promoted to captain, becoming the youngest naval officer ever to attain that rank in the U.S. Navy. The book fully examines Decatur's astonishing achievements as it chronicles his rapid rise in the Navy, including his command of the Constitution and the United States, during the War of 1812, when he captured the British frigate Macedonian off the Azores. The book also recounts the cruise that many call his greatest triumph: Decatur sailed into the Mediterranean with a nine-ship American squadron to punish the dey of Algiers for taking American merchant shipping, securing peace with Algiers and keeping other Barbary states quiescent. Lionized by a grateful American public upon his return, Decatur offered a toast at a reception in his honor that is now legendary, "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" In describing Decatur's life, the author also examines Decatur's relationship with James Barron, a Navy captain who fatally shot Decatur during a 1820 duel.
Author : New York Public Library
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Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Total Pages : 154 pages
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Total Pages : 892 pages
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Publisher : New York : MacMillan
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Total Pages : 324 pages
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