American Minute with Bill Federer
FEB. 16 - ‘Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli...’ -Barbary Pirate Wars
“The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco,” stated President Obama in Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009..........
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs155/1108762609255/archive/1116573906963.html
From “When The Warrior Returns,” by Francis Scott Key. “The Star Spangled Banner” was a rewrite of this song dedicated to the heroes of the Barbary Wars:
...In the conflict resistless, each toil they endured,
‘Till their foes fled dismayed from the war’s desolation:
And pale beamed the Crescent, its splendor obscured
By the light of the Star Spangled flag of our nation.
Where each radiant star gleamed a meteor of war,
And the turbaned heads bowed to its terrible glare,
Now, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,
And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave....
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw340.html