Mark Conley

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/stream/faq45-4.htm

this is the summary overview of the Barbary wars

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/clas...arbarywar.html

heres the timeline


http://college.hmco.com/history/read...arbarywars.htm

and the condensed history

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“If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.”— General James H. Doolittle, USAAF