Free Download Gregory Fremont-Barnes, "The Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the shores of Tripoli: the rise of the US Navy and Marines"
English | 2006 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 1846030307 | PDF | 17,6 mb
The Barbary War – the first American war against Libya – was the first war waged by the United States outside national boundaries after gaining independence and unification of the country. The four Barbary States of North Africa – Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli – had plundered seaborne commerce for centuries. This was piracy on an extraordinary scale: they controlled all trading routes through the Barbary waters and North Africa: demanding ransom and booty for safe passage.