Despite achieving victory during the First Barbary War, Tripoli’s defeat did little to dispel pirate attacks on American shipping. While attacks continued, US attention was averted due to the ...

Though often overlooked, the Barbary pirates played a huge role in U.S. and world history. Did you know that the United States’ first foreign war was with pirates? After the U.S. declared ...

By 1801, the stiffed pirates of Tripoli had launched a full-on campaign against the U.S. that would later be deemed the First Barbary War. The war proved the prowess of the Navy’s early officers ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...