Achieving independence from Great Britain was a triumphant moment for the United States of America. Consequently, independence resulted in American shipping losing protection from the mighty Royal ...

Madison secured a declaration of war from Congress. He sent two squadrons under Commodores William Bainbridge and Stephen Decatur to deal with the Barbary tyrants. Decatur reached Barbary first.

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The men were killed in what’s known as the First Barbary War, a war that effectively led to the creation of the U.S. Navy. Dispatched to the region by Thomas Jefferson to end piracy against ...

The plot sounds like something plucked from today’s headlines: foreign hostages, terrorism, presidential power and American diplomatic relations with the Middle East. But the nation’s first ...

"We were taught, in the schoolbooks, that the United States in its first real war had cowed the dastardly Barbary princes," wrote Donald Barr Chidsey in his book "The Wars in Barbary." "This was ...

The first Barbary War at the start of the 19th century was one of our first overseas interventions, in which the Marine Corps took on pirates from the Barbary states of North Africa who had been ...