>Me must not have a tyrannical navy, we must build a multitude of small, compact, democratic gunboats.>Are the Barbary states and their pirates attacking our merchant vessels? Bypass congress and war against them, using our defense only democratic gunboats!What a goofball.
>>18078044>using our defense only democratic gunboats!What the fuck are you talking about? Jefferson used the handful of ships that he childishly threw a tantrum over Washington and Adams commissioning. His gunboats couldn't even handle a stiff summer breeze without being launched miles inland, let alone the Atlantic
Good day sir, hows your wife Sally the 15 year old slave girl?
>>18078208> Mr. Jefferson, two years ago, adopted an idea of his own, in order to raise the credit of the American navy, and for the destruction of the powers of Barbary. This is, to build a number of small vessels of about 100 tons burden, to be called gun-boats, each of which is proved with too [sic] heavy pieces of ordnance – one at the stem, and the other at the stern. Though the inutility of these mockeries of men of war has been manifested on many occasions, yet the president persists in riding his naval hobby-horse, even in Kentucky; where several gun-boats are building on the river Ohio. One of them was nearly lost on a voyage to the Mediterranean – being, the whole voyage, to use a sea phrase, “wet and under water.”
>>18078044 "From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli". Yes, the kiddie-diddling Mohammadin had been taking WHITE PEOPLE as slaves by the thousands, and the """Euros""" wouldn't do anything about it, so Tom decided he would instead, so he formed a Navy sailed on over and kicked their camel-fucking teeth down their throats with ease. Many such cases. Once again, we see the White man ending slavery and gifting freedom and liberty to his own and others. BASED
>>18078388The fact that historians, to this day, continue to fellate him as "le Enlightenment man" and "le based polymath" says all you need to know about the perpetual bullshitting of the American mythos
>Rather than conventional warships, which were expensive, Jefferson favored the idea of building dozens of small single gun boats he envisioned as more "democratic." In addition, they served a useful political purpose in providing jobs for his constitutents in the South rather than being constructed up north in Federalist-controlled shipyards. The boats proved less than useless; during one confrontation with a British sloop in 1807, the latter sank two gunboats and then sailed off with no damage worse than a torn sail. In 1808, a gunboat under construction in Savannah, Georgia was blown some 50 miles inland by a hurricane and came to rest in a farmer's field--Federalist newspapers had a field day with the incident.[3]
>>18078044How come the Europeans never dealt with the barbary pedos while the Americans reacted immediately upon their vessels being raided even though it was kind of a nothingburger to the US?
>>18078419Would have been based if they secretly took some of those shitskins as slaves themselves to sell in the south.
>>18078789There were multiple punitive expeditions, but the problem wasn't fully ended until the French permanently occupied Algeria.
>>18078783Based Jefferson preventing the godless north from embezzling money until he personally needed to kill ragheadsWhy don't we have kings again?
>>18078783>they served a useful political purpose in providing jobs for his constitutents in the South rather than being constructed up north in Federalist-controlled shipyards.And to think this is the same nigger that tried to paint Washington and Adams as a fucking pseudo-monarchist
>>18078808>embezzling money bad when team I no like does it>embezzling money GOOD when team I like does it
>>18078811>Embezzling money badYes, I know this is hard for a godless federalist to understand
>>18078419>American "education"Europeans performed similar expeditions by the dozens. It just never stuck (neither did the american ones btw. it's just the french conquered algeria soon afterwards). The main reason the american expedition was necessary is that they no longer had the protection of the british navy.
>>18078433Well he was just that, a tinkering high I.Q. goofball with a ton of useless knowledge and patents, who on top of i all, was always in debt.Kinda based, like a proto Steve Jobs archetype.
>>18078814And yet you're fine with it when Jeff does it because he LARPs as "le noble yeoman">>18078867>kinda based for being unapologetically retarded It should be Madison's face on Rushmore not his
