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United States Naval History: A Bibliography

NAVAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHIES, NO. 1



NAVAL HISTORY BY PERIOD

Quasi-War With France and Barbary Wars


Allen, Gardner W. Our Naval War With France. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. 323 pp. (Reprinted 1967 by Shoestring).

-----. Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. 354 pp. (Reprinted 1965 by Shoestring).

Carr, James A. "John Adams and the Barbary Problem: The Myth and the Record." American Neptune 26 (October 1966): 231-257.

Chidsey, Donald B. The Wars in Barbary: Arab Piracy and the Birth of the United States Navy. New York: Crown, 1971. 165 pp.

Dearborn, Henry A. The Life of William Bainbridge, Esq. of the United States Navy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1931. 218 pp.

DeConde, Alexander. The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War With France, 1797-1801. New York: Scribner, 1966. 498 pp.

Estes, Worth J. "A Naval Surgeon in the Barbary Wars: Dr. Peter St. Medard on New York, 1802-3." In New Aspects of Naval History: Selected Papers From the Fifth Naval History Symposium, edited by Department of History, U.S. Naval Academy, 81-92. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub. Co., 1985.

Ferguson, Eugene S. Truxtun of the Constellation: The Life of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U.S. Navy, 1775-1822. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1956. 322 pp. (Reprinted 1982 by Naval Institute Press).

Lewis, Charles L. The Romantic Decatur. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1937. 296 pp.

Mackenzie, Alexander S. Life of Stephen Decatur, a Commodore in the Navy of the United States. Boston: Little, Brown, 1846. 443 pp.

Nash, Howard P. The Forgotten Wars: The Role of the U.S. Navy in the Quasi War With France and the Barbary Wars, 1798-1805. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1968. 308 pp.

Palmer, Michael A. Stoddert's War: Naval Operations During the Quasi-War With France, 1798-1801. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1987. 313 pp.

Tucker, Glenn. Dawn Like Thunder: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the U.S. Navy. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1963. 487 pp.

U.S. Office of Naval Records and Library. Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France: Naval Operations From February, 1797 to December 1801. Washington: GPO, 1935-38. 7 vols.

Vol. 1, Feb. 1797-Oct. 1798; Vol. 2, Nov. 1798-Mar 1799; Vol. 3, Apr. 1799-July 1799; Vol. 4, Aug. 1799-Dec. 1799; Vol. 5, Jan. 1800-May 1800; Vol. 6, June 1800-Nov. 1800; Vol. 7, Dec. 1800-Dec. 1801.

-----. Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars With the Barbary Powers: Naval Operations Including Diplomatic Background From 1785 Through 1807. Washington: GPO, 1939-44. 6 vols.

Vol. 1, 1785-1801; Vol. 2, Jan 1802-Aug. 1803; Vol. 3, Sept. 1803-Mar. 1804; Vol. 4, Apr. 1804-Sept. 6, 1804; Vol. 5, Sept. 7, 1804-Apr. 1805; Vol. 6, 1805-1807: Personnel and Ships' Data, 1801-1807.