C.S. Forester, creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series, takes young readers on an exciting adventure to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. That’s

The stirring story of the seventeenth-century pirates of the Mediterranean-the forerunners of today's bandits of the seas-and how their conquests shaped the cla

The wars against the Barbary pirates not only signaled the determination of the United States to throw off its tributary status, liberate its citizens from slav

Jefferson, and the terrorists were the Barbary pirates of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.

The history of America's conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; the