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The Pirate Coast
Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
Author: Richard Zacks
Narrator: Raymond Todd
Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/27/2005
Category: History
Synopsis
In the first U.S. covert mission to overthrow a foreign nation, President Jefferson dispatched an unlikely diplomat, fortyyearold William Eaton, to Tripoli to free three hundred American hostages. Eaton achieved a remarkable victory on the shores of Tripoli, but for him, the aftermath was not so sweet.