The Battle of Derna, a key event in the First Barbary War takes place. It involved U.S. Marines, under the command of Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon, and other forces, ultimately capturing the city of Derna, then part of Tripolitania, now Libya. It was the first land battle of the United States on foreign soil after the American Revolutionary War. More
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