Barbary Wars

Diplomacy, Postwar Conflict (>1783), Prisoners of War, Reviews February 13, 2023 February 13, 2023

Prisoners of the Bashaw

by William H. J. Manthorpe, Jr.

BOOK REVIEW: Prisoners of the Bashaw: The Nineteen-Month of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803–1805 by Frederick C. Leiner (Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2022) As the dust…

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Beyond the Classroom, Features, Reviews, Strategy, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) September 23, 2020 October 16, 2020

The Shores of Tripoli: A Strategy Game

by Timothy Symington

The Shores of Tripoli: A Strategy Game by Kevin Bertram (Fort Circle Games: Washington, DC) Recently I was fortunate to be asked to review a…

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Critical Thinking, Letters and Correspondence, Postwar Politics (>1783) May 26, 2020 May 21, 2020

Presidential Power: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and the Louisiana Purchase

by Jett Conner

In 1813, Thomas Jefferson received a letter from Marguerite Brazier Bonneville, a French emigre and Thomas Paine’s former caretaker. Bonneville asked the former president…

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The fort is Fort Anne, named for a queen of England. The town where it is located is, today, named Fort Ann. The reason for the different spelling of the…
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