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"The troubles we face today are not so not the same as Jefferson's, and we've much to study from his boldness and from the courage of the marines and sailors who perished to safeguard their country." (Brian Kilmeade) This is actually the little-known history of how a newly independent country was challenged by four Muslim forces and what took place when America's third chief executive decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became chief executive in 1801, America faced a crisis. The brand new country was deeply with debt and needed its market to grow quickly, but its product owner boats were under assault. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary Seacoast regularly captured American sailors and organised them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute repayments far beyond the actual new country could find the money for. Over the prior 15 years, as a diplomat and then as secretary of talk about, Jefferson had attempted to utilize the Barbary areas (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco). Alas, he found it impossible to make a deal with people who assumed their religion justified the plunder and enslavement of non-Muslims. These rogue areas would show no mercy - at least not while easy money could be made by extorting America, France, Britain, and other forces. So Leader Jefferson decided to move beyond diplomacy. He dispatched the US Navy's new warships and a detachment of marines to blockade Tripoli - starting the Barbary Wars and start America's journey toward future superpower position. As they do in their earlier best seller, George Washington's Secret Six, Kilmeade and Yaeger have altered a nearly neglected slice of history into a dramatic story that could keep you listening to discover what goes on next.
