Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tell the Bashaw." They learn pride bordering on arrogance. Daily they are reminded of the words and deeds of the U.S. Navy-words like those of Lieut. Andrew Sterett, posted for their edification in Luce Hall: "Go tell the Bashaw of Tripoli and the people of your country that in the future they may expect only a tribute of powder and ball from the sailors of the United States." They get the idea...
...while away the long sea hours, Commodore Richard Valentine Morris brought along his wife, baby, and Negro maid Sal; to keep his crew happy, he let them bring their wives too. This domestically blissful squadron cruised leisurely about the Mediterranean, then settled down to a blockade of Tripoli. During the siege a seaman's wife on the flagship Chesapeake bore a child in the forecastle. When the Commodore's wife began expecting, Morris lifted the blockade and sailed off to Malta so that she could be delivered in style...
Pasha in the Desert. Morris soon sailed for home. Eaton quickly followed, to promote his own plan for the conquest of Tripoli. He proposed to place on the throne of Tripoli a pusillanimous and vacillating ex-Pasha, Hamet Karamanli, whose bloodthirsty younger brother Yusuf reigned supreme after having murdered one relative and frightened his rabbity senior away...
...first task was to find the rightful Pasha, who had fled in terror far up the Nile. After a two-month search he found his man. Somewhat reluctantly, Hamet signed a treaty of alliance with the U.S., made Eaton a general in his army, and agreed to march on Tripoli...
...warships gave support from the harbor, a central spearhead led by Eaton planted the U.S. flag on the city's walls. Yusuf's governor hid in a harem, and Hamet established himself in the royal palace. For one brief moment General Eaton tasted triumph: "The conquest of Tripoli was in sight and with it would come prestige for the U.S. throughout Barbary, the like of which no other nation enjoyed...