02420nam 22004213 450 991013670990332120231110220049.0(CKB)3710000000906915(MiAaPQ)EBC6056817(Au-PeEL)EBL6056817(OCoLC)1156186307(EXLCZ)99371000000090691520210901d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Shores of Tripoli Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary PiratesEast Rutherford :Penguin Publishing Group,2016.©2016.1 online resource (372 pages)A Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure ;v.10-399-17110-X 0-698-16406-7 "The first novel in a brilliant new series by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion. Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam, is bound for the Mediterranean and a desperate battle with the pirate ship Tripoli. He later returns under legendary Commodore Edward Preble on the Constitution, and marches across the Libyan desert with General Eaton to assault Derna--discovering the lessons he learns about war, and life, are not what he expected. Rich with historical detail and cracking with high-wire action, The Shores of Tripoli brings this amazing period in American history to life with brilliant clarity"--Provided by publisher.A Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure United StatesHistory, Naval19th centuryFiction813.6FIC014000FIC047000FIC008000bisacshHaley James L1132311MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910136709903321The Shores of Tripoli2889960UNINA