HST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Tripoli, Toussaint Louverture, Ottoman Empire
Document Summary
Legislative and executive branches are subject to review by the judiciary branch. Any laws of orders that come from the legislative and executive branches can be declared unconstitutional and nullified by the judicial branch. An associate justice of the united states supreme court. His political views changed over his lifetime, and, in the last decades of his career, he became well known as a staunch federalist and was impeached for allegedly letting his partisan leanings affect his court decisions. The first battle of tripoli harbor was a naval battle fought on may 16, 1802 in. Tripoli harbor between a combined force consisting of the american frigate uss. Boston and two swedish frigates against several tripolitian (ottoman empire) corsairs. The swedish-american force was enforcing the blockade when an engagement broke out between it and tripolitian forces. The allied fleet damaged the tripolitian squadron as well as the harbor fortifications before withdrawing and resuming the blockade.
