tIn his monograph, Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805, journalist Joseph Wheelan asserts that the Barbary Wars “waged against Moslem Tripoli… [are] not so different from today's war on terror.”[1] Employing jingoistic rhetoric, he argues that Jeffersonian Americans “fought f...
—William Eaton in a letter to Mustifa Bey, governor of Derna My head or yours. —Mustifa Bey Hidden in the sparsely wooded hills overlooking the city, Eaton, Hamet, and their officers studied the white buildings and palm trees fringing the harbor. With upwards of 10,000 inhabitants, Derna was ...
Well, he generally knows what he is talking about. Let him start right out and do it. —GENERAL ULYSSES GRANT SENDING SHERIDAN TO FIGHT JEB STUART’S CAVALRY1 THE UNION ARMY HAD A SURFEIT OF MAJOR GENERALS but not a single three-star general. The rank of lieutenant general had fallen into disuse af...