Download or read book To Barbary's Far Shore written by Michael J Kozlowski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1804, the crew of the frigate Philadelphia were being held hostage by the Bey of Tripoli. While diplomatic efforts to free them remained deadlocked, William Eaton came up with an outrageous and impossible plan to free them Eight Marines under the command of Lieutenant Presley O'Bannin made that plan work. They marched across hundreds of miles of hostile desert, attacked a fortress garrisoned by many times their number and took it. Their achievements were so remarkable that they thoroughly unnerved the Bey and forced him to release the Philadelphia prisoners. And so was the reputation of the U.S. Marine Corps established