The Pirate Coast : Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
(2005)
By:
Zacks, Richard
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2005
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 19 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781982477899 MWT10027982, 198247789X 10027982
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Raymond Todd
In the first U.S. covert mission to overthrow a foreign nation, President Jefferson dispatched an unlikely diplomat, forty-year-old William Eaton, to Tripoli to free three hundred American hostages. Eaton achieved a remarkable victory on "the shores of Tripoli," but for him, the aftermath was not so sweet
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