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The Pirate Coast
- Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
- De: Richard Zacks
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 341
After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured 300 U.S. sailors and marines. President Jefferson sent navy squadrons to the Mediterranean, but he also authorized a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. He chose an unlikely diplomat, William Eaton, to lead the mission, but before Eaton departed, Jefferson grew wary of the affair and withdrew his support.
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- De John en 07-11-05
- The Pirate Coast
- Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
- De: Richard Zacks
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
Exciting, Nail-Biting, Only To End Sadly
Revisado: 08-12-22
As history often ends, this does not end in a happily ever after. This starts as a story of prisoners and hostages to a war story between an iron fisted ruler and American-Tripolian liberators only to end anticlimactic with bureaucratic tension between a general (William Eaton) who saw that the true and loved ruler of Tripoli be restored to the throne and politician (Tobias Lear) who'd rather pay to keep peace with a dictator and get American hostages back. Although this may make the reader depressed in the end, I still couldn't stop listening to it as it is an amazing true story of valiant soldiers and moronic politicians.
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