Word: bannon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Derna. Set on the edge of a cluster of green hills, rich in water and soil, this little town had come to be called the Pearl of Cyrenaica. A famous local story which Il Duce asked to hear in full was that of William Eaton and Presley O'Bannon. In 1804 the U. S. was very annoyed with the Barbary pirates, who kept nibbling at U. S. trade in the Mediterranean. William Eaton, a Connecticut schoolteacher, and Presley O'Bannon, a lady-loving, fiddle-playing marine, raised an army of eight marines, 38 Greeks, 91 Arabs...