Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then they swept the water, and depth charges thudded everywhere. But no light, no charge found Prien's raider and he wriggled out of the harbor as he had come, after executing perfectly a feat to rank with Stephen Decatur's burning of the frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli (1804), William Barker Cushing's torpedoing of the Albemarle in Plymouth, N. C. (1864), Commander M. E. Nasmith's penetration of the Dardanelles with the submarine E11 (1916), Commander Luigi Rizzo's sneak shot from a motorboat with a torpedo into the Austrian battleship Szent-Istvan...
...until Admiral Nelson won it for Great Britain 134 years ago, no power ruled over the Mediterranean unchallenged. The Romans and the Carthaginians, Genoa and Naples, the pirates of Tripoli, the Crusaders and the Turks, again and again the East fought the West in its waters, the North fought the South, the powers of Africa and Asia fought the powers of Europe, societies, civilizations, monarchs, rose or fell with the fate of their fleets on the tumultuous...
...Jews in Tripoli have been beaten up. Preferment in the army has been quietly given to non-Jews. Anti-Jewish editorials have been more and more frequent in such Fascist organs as Regime Fascista, II Tevere. When Hitler visited Rome in May hundreds of Jews were temporarily imprisoned. Jews are being frozen out of the theatre, out of literature. Last fortnight booksellers were officially forbidden to display books by Italian Jews, publishers to print translations of books by foreign Jews...
TIME did not say William Eaton was a captain of Marines. And it was not after but before the Tripoli expedition that he saw service in the U. S. Army, first as a Revolutionary volunteer, later as a regular Army captain...
This writer is at present at work on an original motion picture story, "First to Fight," based in part on the U. S. war with Tripoli and the capture of Derna, and covering the period up to and including the participation of Marines, "picked men, to lead the storming of Chapultepec under Major Twiggs and Captain McDonald Reynolds," at Mexico City in 1847; i.e., "From the Halls of Montexuma to the Shores of Tripoli...