Our Pirate War: How the U.S. and its Navy defeated pirate bands off of North Africa (1783-1807)

by Philip Blake

."Our Pirate War" is a concise history of the first foreign war of the United States. The first five U.S. presidents all were challenged by attacks by North African Barbary pirate states from the end of the Revolutionary War until 1815. But Thomas Jefferson dealt with this most often as an American diplomat in Europe, as Secretary of State in the first administration of President George Washington, and as the third President. Jefferson expanded the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0557563283
• ISBN13: 9780557563289
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Lulu Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"