Lt Col Howard "Mustang" Benjamin USMC Ret'd joined me in a discussion of The Barbary Wars (the first American Middle Eastern War), and their relevance to today.
Some real heroism described here.
Your American Heritage February 13, 2021
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Opening Comments:
• I hear they are impeaching the president! That’s great!
Insulin and epi pens costs through the roof!
Tens of thousands of Excel pipeline jobs gone, Shell killing 9000 US Jobs,
Opening the borders to anyone with any disease and not kicking out criminals.
Impeach the president!
• Masks (not seeing faces), lockdown, suppression of liberty, are demonic.
• This isn’t a retirement advice program like others on the station today, but here’s something that occurred to me.
International bad guy, Bond Villain, La Chifre tries to destroy an airline to short sell the stock.
International bad guys are trying to destroy our nation to short sell the currency.
Short Selling the nation.
Talking Points:
• Build ships, don't build ships. Trump/Biden. Adams/Jefferson
• a contrast between Tripoli and Iran. Paying tribute, pallets of cash.
• Wokeness threatens French heritage. Macron complains: “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States,’’
Welcome to our guest Lt Col Howard “Mustang” Benjamin USMC (ret’d) Author, historian, teacher.
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Since the 1600s, the Barbary pirates had attacked British shipping along the North Coast of Africa, holding captives for ransom or enslaving them. Ransoms were generally raised by families and local church groups. The British became familiar with captivity narratives written by Barbary pirates' prisoners and slaves.
(Today Christian Solidarity International buys back Muslim slaves)
Bill Federer told us about this last Christmas when he told us about Sinter Klaus, St. Nicholas. And his helper Black Pete who would take bad kids to Spain to sell them into Moorish slavery.
• Between 1783 and 1794, there was no naval force in the United States.
• On March 20, 1794, at the urging of President George Washington, Congress voted to authorize the building of six heavy frigates and establish the United States Navy,
• Three of the six ships were launched in 1797 — noting that it took three years to build them. The three ships were christened USS United States, USS Constellation, and USS Constitution.
• The United States had signed treaties with all of the Barbary states after its independence was recognized between 1786-1794 to pay tribute in exchange for leaving American merchantmen alone, and by 1797, the United States had paid out $1.25 million or a fifth of the government's annual budget then in tribute
• 1799 the U.S. was in arrears of $140,000 to Algiers and some $150,000 to Tripoli.
• Jefferson cut back on the Navy for domestic reasons.
• After he realized that Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian, and Tripolitan raiders were costing the United States several million dollars annually — roughly, one-fifth of the nation’s income, paid as ransom for captured US ships, cargoes, crews, and passengers. When Jefferson stopped paying ransom to these Moslem pirates, the Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1805.
• In 1803 The Philadelphia had been blockading Tripoli and had been lured into shallow water and run aground. The Pasha captured it, enslaved the crew (including 44 Marines) and refloated it.
• February 16, 1804, U. S. Navy lieutenant Stephen Decatur Jr. (son of the Philadelphia’s original captain) led a raid into the Harbor aboard a Tripolitan ketch Mastico, renamed USS Intrepid, boarded Philadelphia, killed the Moslem crew, and set her on fire. Sergeant Solomon Wren led the Marine squad that fired Philadelphia denying it’s guns to the Pasha.
• Former Army captain William Eaton, who was then serving as a diplomat, and First Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon hired around 500 mercenaries and marched overland six-hundred miles, through the desert, to attack the Tripolitan fort at Derna. When Eaton was wounded during the attack, O’Bannon assumed command and defeated the Moslem defenders at Derna. It was the first time the United States flag was raised over a foreign territory and this incident was the origin of the words to the Marine Corps Hymn, “ ... to the shores of Tripoli.”
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