Jefferson's War (60 page)

ransom

of Anna Marie Porcile

of Christians

demands escalate

of John Dent

of Knights of St. John

and Redemptionists

rejected

for U. S. captives

rations, shipboard

Ray, William

reconnaissance

Redemptionists

Reis, Murad

argues with Yusuf

ridicules Bainbridge

reparations

France requests

Tripoli pays United States

Tunis pays United States

Republicans, vs. Federalists

and Eaton's campaign against Lear

and spending

Retaliation
(U. S. ship)

Revolutionary War

and Mediterranean trade

Preble serves in

Robeson, Betsey

Roderick, Visigoth king

Rodgers, John

assumes command

returns home

sends warships to Tunis

Roebuck
(British ship)

Roman aqueduct repaired

round ships

Rous, Rais Mahomet

Ruyter, Michiel

sailors

diet

discipline

drowning

shirking

in U. S. Navy

sails, as new technology

sandstorm

Santuari, Gervasso Prodasio. See Leitensdorfer, Johan Eugene

Schembry, Gaetano

schooner, definition

Scourge
(U. S. brig)

second squadron

assembles in Malta

burns Tripolitan ships

cruises southern Europe

Sedition Act

September 11, 2001,

Serapis
(British warship)

Seven Years' War

Seward, Edward

sexuality, stereotype of Moslem

Shannon
(British warship)

Shay's Rebellion

Sheffield, lord,
Observations on the commerce of the American States

shells, artillery, dud

Sherley, Anthony

Shiffield, Ichabod

ships,

as tribute

U. S.

built for blocades

building

lost at sea

shoal, definition

Shubrick, John

Sicily

Sierra Nevada mountains

Simpson, James

Siren
(U. S. brig)

in battle

sirocco

Skjoldebrand
(schooner)

slave marts

slave trade

profits of

slaves.
See also
prisoners

as capital

Christian

European

labor of

living conditions of

population of

as seamen

U. S.

sloop, definition

Smith, John

Smith, Robert

Smith, Samuel

Smollett, Tobias,
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker

Soliman, Muley

Somers, Richard

and attack on Tripoli

and fireship

monument

Sophia
(U. S. ship)

sorceress, Moroccan

Spain

defeats the Moors

and Louisiana Purchase

raided by pirates

relations with United States

strengthens navy

supports Yusuf Karamanli

spanker boom

Spark
(U. S. ship)

speaking trumpet

special ops

Spitfire
(U. S. ship)

Spokane
(U. S. cruiser)

Spragg, Edward

Spruce, Keith

sprung mast, definition

spying

squadron, definition

Stafford, John

“Star-Spangled Banner” (song)

starboard

Stars and Stripes

adopted

cut down in Tripoli

first planted on foreign soil

states' rights.
See
Republicans, vs. Federalists

stern, definition

Sterrett, Andrew

in first squadron

letter, from Jefferson

resigns

in second squadron

Stewart, Charles

in War of 1812,

Stoddert, David

Straits of Gibraltar

strategy

struck his flag, definition

Suleiman, Sultan

Suliaman, Maulay

super frigates

in War of 1812,

Sweden

tributes

Syracuse

tack

il Taiib, Sheik

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de

Tarik

Tarleton, Banastre

Tars from Tripoli
(musical)

taxes

technological advancement of sails

temporary peace

Terror, The

and European sailing ships

pervasive nature of

terrorism

of Barbary states.
See also
extortion; treaties

modern U. S.

third squadron

battles Tripolitan fleet

bombardment of Tripoli

and mission to destroy
Philadelphia

in Morocco

second battle with Tripoli

vessels and armaments of

Thirty Years' War

Thomas
(U. S. ship)

Thorn, Jonathan

Tingey, Thomas

“To Anacreon in Heaven” (song)

Torch
(U. S. ship)

torture

of Inquisition

trade, Mediterranean

halted

under Rules of Confederation

trade routes

traitors

Transfer
(Tripolitan ship)

treaties

with Barbary states.
See also
extortion; tribute

cost of

treaty

with Algiers, ratified

with England

with Spain

with Tripoli

ratified

secret clause

senate investigation

with Tunis

Treaty of Ghent

Treaty of Mortefontaine

tribute.
See also
extortion; treaties

annual

cost of

finances navy

formalized

Jefferson refuses to pay

loans for

ships as

weapons as

Trinitarians

Trinity Church, New York City

Tripoli

captures
Franklin
(U. S. sloop)

cavalry

civil war

declares war on United States

expands naval force

geography

negotiates tributes

pays reparations

prepares for battle

relations with United States

truce declared

U. S. bombardment of

at war with United States

Tripoli Prize, or American Tars on an English Shore
(play)

Tripoli
(Tripolitan corsair)

Tripolitan prisoners, of United States

Tripolitan war, cost of

Tripolitano
(Tripolitan polacre)

Trippe, John

Truxtun, Thomas

refuses appointment

Tunis

ambassador visits U. S.

origins of

pays reparations

piracy

reaffirms treaty

threatens war

treaty with England

war with United States

war with Algiers

Turks invade camp of Hamet Karamanli

“turned Turk”

12th Amendment

Two Brothers
(ship)

Ulovix, Luco

Unis ben Unis, Hadgi

United States

economy.
See
economy, United States

embargo on foreign trade

government, post-Revolutionary War

honor affronted

Naval Academy

Navy.
See
Navy, United States

negotiates with Algiers

policy, on Barbary states

prisoners of war.
See
Philadelphia, crew as prisoners

readies for Barbary War

ridiculed

takes Moroccan prisoners

trade with Europe.
See
Britain, and U. S. trade; France, and U. S. trade

treaties.
See
treaties

war with Algiers

war with France

war with Tripoli.
See
Eaton/Karamanli expedition; Tripoli

war with Tunis

United States
(U. S. super frigate),

in War of 1812,

University of Pennsylvania

Vacher, Pere

Vengeance, La
(French ship)

Venice, pays tributes

Vergennes, count de

Vermont House of Delegates

Victory
(ship)

Violet
(U. S. merchantman)

Visigoths

Vixen
(U. S. schooner)

in battle

in fifth squadron

Voluntaire
(French frigate)

Wadsworth, Henry

and fireship

monument

War of 1812,

War of Independence. See Revolutionary War

warfare, psychological

Washington, George

correspondence, dissapearance of

death

and Tobias Lear

watch, definition

Wayne, “Mad Anthony”

weapons, as tribute

weather, inclement

Wheeler, Susan (later Susan Decatur)

Whitney, Eli

Whitten, John

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Wilson, John

Winthrop
(Massachusetts Navy ship)

women

aboard ship

in ancient Moorish culture

Woodside, Jane

World Trade Center attacks

Wormeley, Wallace W

xebec

Ximenes, Cardinal

XYZ affair

yellow fever

JOSEPH WHEELAN
was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press for 24 years in Cheyenne, Wyoming; Denver; Little Rock; and Raleigh, North Caroliona. While news editor in the AP's Denver and Raleigh bureaus, Wheelan directed team, feature and investigative reporting projects and supervised daily news coverage. He also reviewed dozens of books for the AP and, among other things, wrote about the Korean War and the continuing battle by its veterans to obtain government benefits for coldweather injuries.

 

Before joining the AP, he was a reporter and state editor for the
Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune.
Wheelan is a graduate of the University of Wyoming and the University of Colorado-Denver.

 

He and his wife, Pat, a research scientist, have two grown daughters and live in Cary, N.C.

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