David Porter, 'Philadelphia' & The Barbary Pirates

The Porter Saga

Nonfiction, History, Military, Naval, Americas
Cover of the book David Porter, 'Philadelphia' & The Barbary Pirates by Jack Owen, Jack M.D. Owen, Old Book Shop Publication
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Author: Jack Owen, Jack M.D. Owen ISBN: 9780938673149
Publisher: Old Book Shop Publication Publication: December 13, 2016
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Jack Owen, Jack M.D. Owen
ISBN: 9780938673149
Publisher: Old Book Shop Publication
Publication: December 13, 2016
Imprint:
Language: English

One Halloween the US Navy would like to forget, played a terrible trick on LIEUTENANT DAVID PORTER, in 1803.
He, along with 306 other shipmates aboard the 38-gun frigate USS Philadelphia, including Captain William Bainbridge, were caught by pirates at Tripoli It took guile and courage to free them from their 18-month slavery in the grip of a murderous, despotic Pasha, and a renegade Scot-turned-Turk pirate. Plus the politicking of a President, Emperor and Pope.
   It also introduced the United States Marine Corps onto the world stage of battle and bravery. A handful of leathernecks with a raggle-taggle army of camel-drivers and mercenaries, under determined leadership, routed the best the Barbary Coast Pirates could muster.
   They helped free their comrades, after they marched across a desert, quelled mutinies and meted out frontier justice.

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One Halloween the US Navy would like to forget, played a terrible trick on LIEUTENANT DAVID PORTER, in 1803.
He, along with 306 other shipmates aboard the 38-gun frigate USS Philadelphia, including Captain William Bainbridge, were caught by pirates at Tripoli It took guile and courage to free them from their 18-month slavery in the grip of a murderous, despotic Pasha, and a renegade Scot-turned-Turk pirate. Plus the politicking of a President, Emperor and Pope.
   It also introduced the United States Marine Corps onto the world stage of battle and bravery. A handful of leathernecks with a raggle-taggle army of camel-drivers and mercenaries, under determined leadership, routed the best the Barbary Coast Pirates could muster.
   They helped free their comrades, after they marched across a desert, quelled mutinies and meted out frontier justice.

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