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Barbary Coast Wars

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Barbary Coast Wars

Wars between the Barbary states of North Africa (Tripoli, Morocco, Algiers, and Tunis) and the USA after a dispute over protection money 1801–15. President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay more ‘tribute money’ in return for protection of merchant shipping from pirates in the Mediterranean. US warships blockaded Tripoli, and intermittent warfare continued until the Sultan of Tripoli agreed to abandon the ‘tribute’ in exchange for a ransom for US prisoners 1805.

A further campaign in 1815 persuaded the other Barbary states to give up the tribute.



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