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Prisoners of the Bashaw: The Nineteen-Month Captivity of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803-1805 Religion_Gift_Guide and labor in a digitalFINALIST FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN MILITARY HISTORY PRIZE Americas first crisis with the Islamic world: the diplomatic and military mission to free more than three hundred enslaved sailors On October 31, 1803, the frigate USS Philadelphia ran aground on a reef a few miles outside the harbor of Tripoli. Since April 1801, the United States had been at war with Tripoli, one of the Barbary pirate regimes, over the payment of annual tributebribes so that