The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World by Franklin T. Lambert

The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World

Franklin T. Lambert

240 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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American independence was secured from Britain on September 3, 1783. Within a year, the American merchant ship Betsey was captured by Sallee Rovers, state-sponsored pirates operating out of the ports of Morocco. Algerian pirates quickly seized two...

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