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The First Barbary Warfare (1801-1805), or "America's first war on terror" as some make reference to it, was a pivotal moment in time in US background. While both Navy and Marines participated in the quasi-war with France, it was the war with the Barbary pirates that cemented both Marine Corps and the Navy as the very pleased organizations that they are today. This was the war that produced heroes such as O'Bannon, Decatur, Preble, Porter, Hull, and Somers. To the Shores of Tripoli practices three fictional Marine privates as they participate in the watershed moments in the war. Private Seth Crocker can be an uneducated, underage Marine who fights from the tops of the USS Organization, and in battles such as the Gunboat Battle off of the shoreline of Tripoli. Private Ichabod Cone, a veteran of the Trend, is area of the staff of the USS Philadelphia when it is captured and spends most of the war as a slave of the pasha. Private Jacob Brissey is one of the seven Marines, under Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon, who march 600 mls across the desert against tremendous odds to strike and capture the location of Derne, where, for the very first time in history, the united states flag is lifted over foreign dirt. This book is historical fiction, however the events it details are historical fact. Most of the characters actually been around and fought in the war. Where possible, their genuine words are reproduced here. In every other conditions, dialogue and characterizations were created in the author's thoughts. The First Barbary Warfare is definitely the birth of the united states Navy. It really is equally valid to say that the war created the foundation for the Marine Corps as we know it today.
