Prisoners of the Bashaw: The Nineteen-Month Captivity of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803–1805

by Frederick C. Leiner

FINALIST FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN MILITARY HISTORY PRIZE
America's first crisis with the Islamic world: the diplomatic and military mission to free more than three hundred enslaved sailors
On October 31, 1803, the frigate USS Philadelphia ran aground on a reef a few miles outside the harbor of Tripoli. Since April 1801, the United States had been at war with Tripoli, one of the Barbary "pirate" regimes, over the payment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594164541
• ISBN13: 9781594164545
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Westholme Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"