The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the U.S. Navy
by
Glenn Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
In the early 1800s, American ships off the coast of North Africa routinely found themselves the targets of Muslim pirates. These sea raiders, or ‘corsairs’ as they were known, sought captives to enslave in the Ottoman Empire’s galleys, mines and harems. When reports circulated of white Christians...