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Hardcover Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History Book
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ISBN: 0813026962

ISBN13: 9780813026961

Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History

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This book tells the story of America's first hostage crisis, which began in 1785 with the capture of two American ships off the coast of Portugal, and provides the intriguing details of the diplomacy mobilized to address the crisis. The incident constituted America's first challenge from the Muslim world and led to the creation of the U.S. Navy and to an American naval presence in the Mediterranean, which has continued intermittently to the present...

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