Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs

2005 Scholar's Bookshelf Reprint Edition. The first full study of the events of a forty-year period from 1778 to 1818, showing how the United States managed to build a navy with such ships as the George Washington, Philadelphia, Constellation, Constitution, and others, and eventually defeat the depredations of the Barbary pirates in battles at Tripoli and Algiers under Bainbridge, Prebel, Porter and Decatur. Reprint of the original 1905 Houghton Mifflin edition. 2005: 354 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)Allen, Gardner W. is the author of 'Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs', published 2005 under ISBN 9780945726241 and ISBN 0945726244.