Cast of Characters (circa 1805)

WILLIAM EATON, ex-captain, U.S. Army; ex-consul to Tunis; secret agent

WASHINGTON

THOMAS JEFFERSON, President

JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State

ROBERT SMITH, Secretary of the Navy

TIMOTHY PICKERING, former Secretary of State, Senator (Federalist, Massachusetts)

STEPHEN BRADLEY, Senator (Federalist, Vermont)

JOHN COTTON SMITH, Representative (Federalist, Connecticut)

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Senator (Federalist, Massachusetts)

AARON BURR, Vice President (1801-1804), conspirator plotting to invade Spanish territory

DIPLOMATS

TOBIAS LEAR, U.S. consul general to Barbary Regencies

RICHARD O’BRIEN, former U.S. consul in Algiers

JAMES LEANDER CATHCART, former U.S. consul in Tripoli

NICHOLAS NISSEN, Danish consul in Tripoli

BERNARDINO DROVETTI, French consul in Alexandria, Egypt

ANTOINE ZUCHET, consul in Tripoli for Republique Batave (Holland under Napoleon)

C. BEAUSSIER, French consul in Tripoli

SAMUEL BRIGGS, British consul in Alexandria

MAJOR E. MISSETT, British resident agent at Cairo

U.S. NAVY

RICHARD V. MORRIS, Commodore of second U.S. Mediterranean Squadron (1802-1803)

EDWARD PREBLE, Commodore of third U.S. Mediterranean Squadron (1803-1804)

SAMUEL BARRON, Commodore of fourth U.S. Mediterranean Squadron (1804-1805)

JOHN RODGERS, Commodore of fifth U.S. Mediterranean Squadron (1805-1806)

JONATHAN COWDERY, assistant surgeon, USS Philadelphia

GEORGE WASHINGTON MANN, midshipman, USS Argus

ELI E. DANIELSON, midshipman, USS Argus

FOR OTHER NAVAL OFFICERS, see SHIPS on following page

U.S. MARINES

PRESLEY O’BANNON, lieutenant

WILLIAM RAY, private and memoirist

BARBARY AND EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS

YUSSEF KARAMANLI, Bashaw of Tripoli

HAMET KARAMANLI, deposed ruler of Tripoli

MOHAMMED DGHIES, foreign minister of Tripoli

MURAD RAIS (PETER LYLE), admiral of Tripoli

HAMOUDA, Bey of Tunis

AHMET PACHA, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt

KOURCHIEF, regional Ottoman commander of Demanhour, Egypt

MUHAMMAD ALI, Albanian general commanding Cairo region for Ottoman Empire

TAYYIB, SHEIK, warrior, and camel driver

MISCELLANEOUS

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, poet

ANNA PORCILE, twelve-year-old Sardinian hostage

ANTONIO PORCILE, count of Sant-Antioco, father of hostage

LORD HORATIO NELSON, British admiral

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, crowned himself Emperor on December 2, 1804

ALEXANDER BALL, British Governor of Malta

RICHARD FARQUHAR, Scottish entrepreneur based in the Mediterranean

ELIZA DANIELSON EATON, William’s wife

SHIPS

USS PHILADELPHIA, 36-gun frigate, Captain William Bainbridge

USS CONSTITUTION, 44-gun frigate, Commodore Edward Preble, then Commodore John Rodgers

USS PRESIDENT, 44-gun frigate, Commodore Samuel Barron, then Captain James Barron

USS CONGRESS, 36-gun frigate, Captain John Rodgers, then Captain Stephen Decatur Jr.

USS ESSEX, 32-gun frigate, Captain James Barron, then Lieutenant George Cox

USS CONSTELLATION, 36-gun frigate, Captain Hugh Campbell

USS INTREPID, 4-gun captured Mastico ketch, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur Jr.

USS ARGUS, 18-gun brig, Lieutenant Isaac Hull

USS VIXEN, 12-gun brig, Lieutenant John Smith

USS SIREN, 16-gun brig, Lieutenant Charles Stewart

USS NAUTILUS, 12-gun schooner, Lieutenant John Dent

USS HORNET, 10-gun sloop, Lieutenant Samuel Evans