Fight We Shall

De: Marc Liebman

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This is the seventh book in the Jaco Jacinto Age of Sail Series. The others are Raider of the Scottish Coast, Carronade, Death of a Lady, Last Battles, for a Few Francs and Predators. The series follows the careers of an American, Jaco Jacinto and a Englishman, Darren Smythe as their lives and careers as naval officers in their respective navies intertwine.

Its 1801, pirates based along the North African littoral are having a heyday capturing American flagged merchant ship. Without a strong navy deployed in the Mediterranean, U.S. ships are easy pickings.

Based in Algiers, Béjaïa, Tripoli, and Tunis, men known as Barbary Pirates are taking and selling American ships and cargos. If the merchant ship owners don’t pay ransoms, the crews are sold into slavery.

Each year, the tribute payments to the individual Barbary Pirate nation-states go up, and still, ships are captured. Fonseca-Laredo Shipping along with three other merchant ship owners form Naval Escort Services (N.E.S.) to provide armed ships to protect convoys traveling from Gibraltar to ports in Southern France, Eastern Spain, and Italy.

Operating from Béjaïa, Hamad Halimi thinks nothing of butchering crews of ships that resists capture. Or, going into an Italian port and kidnapping women for his harem or to sell as slaves.

When the Bey of Tripoli declares war on the United States, the game changes. The small U.S. Navy deployed its frigates to convince the Tripolitans of the error of their ways.

The U.S. Navy is focused on Tripoli, but what about the other ports where pirates are based? N.E.S.’s ships and their crews become part of the U.S. Navy and their rules of engagement change. Led by Jaco Jacinto and Darren Smythe, their mission becomes protect American shipping in the Western Mediterranean and destroy the pirate fleets based in Algiers, Béjaïa, and Tunis. And Hamid Halimi believes he can defeat the Americans and becomes enemy number one!