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Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation Ancestry 000 professional mariners—andAt the dawn of a new century, a newly elected U. S. president was forced to confront an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim terrorists sworn to carry out jihad against all Western powers. As timely and familiar as these events may seem, they occurred more than two centuries ago. The president was Thomas Jefferson, and the terrorists were the Barbary pirates. Victory in Tripoli recounts the untold story of one of the defining