Description
In 1794 the new American nation was under armed terrorist attack from the corsairs of the Barbary states of North Africa. This finally forced congress to pass the Naval Act, authorizing the staggering sum of $688,000 for the construction of a permanent navy. The six frigates built in every major Atlantic seaport were small, fast and hardly a match for the mighty Royal Navy. But they and their crews changed the world. Learn the story of how the U.S. Navy came to be and how it made the rest of the world take the new nation seriously.
