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UNITED STATES' FIRST WAR ON 'TERROR' (Islam) The Battle of Derna in 1805 was one of the first battles of the "United States of America" ​​with a foreign country, and it was against the Islamic Caliphate (Ottoman Empire). In this war, American forces recruited mercenaries from Egypt and Greek under the command of American General William Eaton and attacked the city of Derna, the capital of the Cyrenaic State (eastern modern Libya) of the Ottoman Islamic Caliphate through land and sea, and killed more than 800 Muslims. An American poet wrote a hymn published in the same year to glorify this victory, which later developed into an official anthem of the United States Marine Corps. t.me/islamichistoryinglory