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Marines and Sailors Versus Pirates: The Quallah Battoo Expedition (2024x117)

Fecha de emisión: Oct 25, 2024

In 1832 president Andrew Jackson deemed it of very high importance that the people of Quallah Battoo knew who America was. The result was one of the US Navy’s least known military escapades, when sailors and marines fought Sumatran pirates. Because, don’t all good stories involve pirates?