| Show Tripoli Known to U U. S. S City Menaced by British Once Pirate Stronghold J If the British had a talent for piracy they might be able to tomake tomake tomake make an infernal nuisance of themselves by taking Tripoli Tripoli in the past has has has' been a pirates pirate's paradise for attacks on Roman Italian and other ship ship- ping Even your Uncle Sam was victimized once once but but not for long Original Tripoli the three cities was owned by powerful Carthage and ships sailed from Its harbors against the fleets of Carthage's sworn enemy Rome Then Rome beat Carthage and took Tripoli along with most of the rest of the world After Rome tottered Tripoli was conquered successively by Vandals Arabs Spaniards and Turks Turks- By that time the country had gone pretty much to pot and the Turkish beys took up piracy to make ends meet Theirs were the notorious Barbary Barbary Barbary Bar- Bar bary pirates who ranged from Algiers and Tunis as well weli as from Tripoli and levied toll on the shipping of all ali the world Europe European European Euro Euro- pe n powers took turns chastisIng chastisIng chastising ing them But for centuries white slaves decorated harems and worked galleys U U. S. S Took Action Then your Uncle Sam got mad He like most other nations was paying tribute to Tripoli for protection protection protection pro Tripoli tried to hike the th-e ante Your Uncle Sams Sam's re retort retort retort re- re tort was in the tone of Charles C. C Pinckney's historic reply to a French effort to force a loan Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute He had been I paying annual tribute Anyway he sent a squadron to I Tripoli in the modern I manner without manner without the formality of declaring war One of the U. U S. S ships the Philadelphia I ran aground in harbor got itself captured and ami gave Stephen Decatur cw out our country right or wrong i chance to gain Immortality v br leading a desperate and H ful attempt to burn it Also Alao In a. other American William Willisa Eaton pioneered Britain's blitZkrieg route took Derna and wa was WI pia plan pia ning to continue his march west when the war ended with Trina Tripo being bombarded and pacified That was in 1804 Ten years later Uncle had to do the job over aga agaIn Tripoli reluctantly left ot oft off pl racy promptly went broke and grubbed alo along g under the Tu Turu t until Italy bestirred knelt itself to get M ahead of the French and Germans Ger Ger- mans and grabbed all aU of ofin In 1911 Jl The native tribes hadn't ke been consulted of c course urse and d did dij quite a little shooting they e would admit the transfer of title Ha Has Population Tripoli today Is 13 a beautiful city cirri of with white topped flat flat houses rising row on row Iron front the water and minarets pointer poisu 1 to the sky The promontory o on which it is built forms a crescent shaped bay and gives Tripoli TrIpod 1 iti ses i J breezes and comparatively tool good weather j The oasis east of town Is rc I with groves and fields covering its 25 square mU miles s but the desert sweeps in nearly to 10 th the thi t west edge J J Mostly however the true duo dei- ert stays away from the cout nut and on the Intervening territory shepherds tend their I Wormwood grows in clusters on os the stony plateaus plateauS' and gazelles still roam Three caravan routes crossing the Sahara Sahar at its narrowest nar sat converge on the cit city f tl z S t ei i n o 5 0 1 0 Tripoli today is a beautiful city of with white flat flat- topped houses rising row on row from the water e |
