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To The Shores of Tripoli: America's First Overseas Conflict |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE--JEFFERSON'S CHALLENGES |
| Author: Dave Bartruff |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,893 Words, 11,958 Characters |
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No sooner had Thomas Jefferson taken his oath as the third president of the United States than he was confronted by the first declaration of war by a foreign power against the fledging American republic.
The year was 1801 and the new nation had yet to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its independence. But the threat Jefferson dealt with was very real, although it came from afar: from the Barbary Coast of North Africa. Strategically located along vital shipping routes between the Mediterranean and Atlantic, the Barbary states of Tunis, Morocco, Algeria, and Tripolitania (today's Libya) had all built their economies around the piracy of foreign merchant ships at sea and the selling of their crews into slavery.
On his inauguration as president, Jefferson rebuffed the $225,000 r...
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...ed two centuries ago by the United States Marines on their way to their first victorious overseas battle … on the shores of Tripoli.
RECOMMENDED READING
The Barbary Pirates, by C.S Forester
The U.S Marine Corps Story, by J. Robert Moskin
To the Shores of Tripoli, by A. B. C. Whipple
The Illustrated Directory of the U.S. Marine Corps, by Chester Hearn
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