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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594163863
• ISBN13: 9781594163869
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Westholme Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 8.3"