Thank you for educating thousands of Americans who have probably NEVER heard the story of US action against the Barbary Pirates.
You’ve left out one delicious bit of absolute irony.
The USS Philadelphia went aground, true, and was eventually refloated by the pirates and taken to Algiers, there used as a moored gun platform “In case the yankees had to nerve to show up. The US Navy, by a detachment commanded by LT Stephen Decatur, raided the Philadelphia and burned it to the waterline, to keep the Algerians from using it....ever.
The name of the Captain of the Philadelphia and the name of the US destroyer sent to the current trouble scene was..
Captain William BAINBRIDGE and the
USS BAINBRIDGE.
I did my boot camp at a naval base at BAINBRIDGE, Maryland