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Article: Distant echoes.(Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation )(Book Review)
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- October 24, 2005
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IN Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation (Wiley, 276 pp., $24.95), Washington-based writer Joshua E. London tells an exciting story of the War on Terror--circa 1800. The Mediterranean pirates were demanding tribute from U.S. vessels; little over a decade into the existence of the new federal government, an American administration struggled over how to respond. President Thomas Jefferson understood, early on, what was necessary: "I know that nothing will stop the eternal increase of demands from these pirates but the presence of an armed force." But there would be much failure and frustration before ...
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