Word: tripolitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Roberts finally pins Lear to the mat as one of the culprits in our "disgraceful as well as heroic" Tripolitan War. To do so he follows Lear from Haiti to the Mediterranean, dragging Albion and Lydia along to make love on the way. Albion reaches Haiti, finds Lydia not dead from yellow fever at all, and as pretty as her picture. He also finds Napoleon's troops trying to put down Toussaint's revolution, and willy-nilly mixes in on Toussaint's side. By page 300 Haiti is left far behind; Albion and Lydia languish...
Consul Eaton, soon disgusted by the greed and eternal haggling of the Tripolitan Pasha, decided that appeasment did not pay. Instead he set up a howl for naval action. If he had his way, he stormed, the U.S. would fit out a fleet, sink every corsair on sight and "let the Pashas wreak their vengeance on the consuls- if they pleased, eat them...
...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 if he would only recover, Reuben James could have anything he wanted. Decatur expected his bosun's mate to ask to be an officer...
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