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...To the shores of Tripoli In 1801, the United States decided to do something about piracy in the Mediterranean, and President Jefferson sent in the Navy. In 1805, the Marines finished the job. The Battle of Derne, on the shores of Tripoli during the First Barbary War, was the decisive action of the war, and the first overseas land battle fought by the United States military. In 2011, the U.S. Marine Corps returned to Libya as part of Operation Odyssey Dawn.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:32:42 +0000

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