The Shores of Tripoli
Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
by James L. Haley
It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion. Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam, is bound for the Mediterranean and a desperate battle with the pirate ship Tripoli. He later returns under legendary Commodore Edward Preble on the Constitution, and marches across the Libyan desert with General Eaton to assault Derna--discovering the lessons he learns about war, and life, are not what he expected.
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United States, Pirates, Naval History, Battleships, History, United States. Navy, Officers, Fiction, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, sea stories, United states, fiction, Armed Forces, Tripolitan War (United States : 1801-1805) fast (OCoLC)fst01355170, Bliven Putnam Naval AdventurePlaces
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Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
2018, Penguin Publishing Group
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0425278174 9780425278178
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The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
2016, G.P. Putnam's Sons, G P Putnam s Sons
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039917110X 9780399171109
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Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure. Book 1
It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion. Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam, is bound for the Mediterranean and a desperate battle with the pirate ship Tripoli. He later returns under legendary Commodore Edward Preble on the Constitution, and marches across the Libyan desert with General Eaton to assault Derna--discovering the lessons he learns about war, and life, are not what he expected.
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