Frederick C Leiner: 2 books
The End of Barbary Terror
America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen Decatur, to end Barbary terror once and...
Millions for Defense
The Subscription Warships of 1798
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790s-millions for defense, not a cent for tribute.” Americans were incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats and by France’s galling seizures of U.S. merchant ships, and as they teetered towards open war, were...