The First Battle of Derna (Cyrenaica) Lieutenant William Eaton, commanding, eight Marines of the Navy of the united States and a mercenary army of four-hundred recruited from Egypt, defeats a garrison force of four-thousand, deposes Pasha Yussif Karamanli, and installs his brother Hamet as the new Pasha, on the condition that the piracy on the Mediterranean will cease.
NOTE: The infant u.S. was too specie-poor to afford paying ransom and tribute to the Barbary Pirates, as the nations and realms of Europe had been doing. As a result of the heroic actions by the Marines, free trade on the high seas became safer for everyone.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 62.
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