To the shores of Tripoli….

On April 27, 1805, during the 1st Barbary War, after a march of over 500 miles from Alexandria, Egypt, U.S. Marines, and allied troops under the command of U.S. Army Lieutenant William Eaton, diplomatic Consul to Tripoli, and U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon, staged an assault, supported by U.S. naval gunfire, on the port city of Derna, Cyrenaica, on the Mediterranean sea shores of Tripolitania, taking the city in a little over an hour.