Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter Sorensen heard the story of the original Reuben James. They said he was born in Delaware in the big year, 1776. He went to sea just like anybody and got to be a bosun's mate. In the fighting against the pirates of Tripoli in 1804, he did his big deed. There was a fierce hand-to-hand fight one day. James's boss, Captain Stephen Decatur, was knocked down by a Tripolitan. Another pirate lifted his scimitar to kill the Captain. James dived and took the blow on the back of the head. Captain Decatur said...
...Last week British submarines drove tin fish into a 10,000-ton Italian heavy cruiser; and into a big Italian liner, believed to be the 23,635-ton Duilio and into the 11,398-ton Esperia; planes of the Fleet Air Arm torpedoed and destroyed an Italian destroyer off Tripoli; others bombed merchant ships in Tripoli harbor...
General Dentz did not attend the farewell party. He was up the coast at Tripoli, superintending the evacuation of his troops, presumably glad to go back to France with a whole hide. According to U.P.'s Harold Peters, who was in Beirut during the whole campaign, the General had to change his residence every night because of popular feeling against...
...Pushed on to Tripoli, laid siege to a Nazi division there...
...early Spring, General Wavell's drive across Libya had taken the British advance units just beyond: 1. Derna. 2. Tripoli. 3. Tobruch. 4. Bengasi...