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11/6/2016 7:05:16 PM
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The Barbary Wars; Forgotten History

So I heard Offtopic liked history? My last post was about the Treaty of Tripoli. And admittedly it was rushed not very well searched and I made some factual errors. To be fair it was more of a [i]roast[/i] of modern liberalism, atheism, and their denial of America being a Christian nation. This is about the Barbary wars. The Barbary Wars were two wars fought at different times over the same reasons between the United States, Sweden and the Barbary states of North Africa in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Swedes having been at war with the Tripolitans since 1800 were eventually joined by the Americans.  At issue was the Barbary pirates' demand for tribute from American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. If ships of a given country failed to pay, pirates would attack the ship and take their goods, and often enslave crew members or hold them for ransom. When Thomas Jefferson became President he refused to pay tribute and sent a United States Naval fleet to the Mediterranean; they bombarded the various fortified pirate cities, ultimately extracting concessions of fair passage from their rulers. Both the administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison undertook actions against the Barbary States at different times. Jefferson led the first, from 1801 to 1805, against pirates' cities in what are today Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria. Madison directed forces for the second war in 1815. The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Dodo War or the Barbary Coast War, was the first of two wars fought between the alliance of the United States and The Kingdom of Sicilyagainst the Northwest African BerberMuslim states known collectively as the Barbary States. These were Tripoli and Algiers, which were quasi-independent entities nominally belonging to the Ottoman Empire, and (briefly) the independent Sultanate of Morocco. This war began during Thomas Jefferson's term when he refused to pay tribute, an amount that was greatly increased when he became president. A U.S. naval fleet was sent on May 13, 1801. The United States successfully defeated enemy forces with a combined naval and land assault by the United States Marine Corps. The U.S. treaty with Tripoli concluded in 1805 included a ransom for American prisoners in Tripoli, but no provisions for tribute. [b]The Second Barbary War[/b] Finding the Treaty of Tripoli lacking, Algiers sided with the British during the War of 1812, though the British blockade along the Atlantic stymied most American trade in the Mediterranean.  Shortly after the end of the war, President Madison requested that Congress approve war against Algiers.  Authorization came on February 23, 1815, and on May 20th a 10-ship squadron led by battle-hardened Stephen Decatur left New York for Algiers. USA would take hundreds of prisoners from the port of Algiers, using this to bargain; a technique similar to the one the pirates used. In June we would sign a peace treaty. 1816: A joint British and Dutch navy bombards Algiers for 9 hours. The Dey would sign an agreement to stop pirating and enslaving of Europeans. And thank you for taking this trip into forgotten history! 🔫ˎ₍•ʚ•₎ˏ🇺🇸

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