Examples of Barbary Wars in the following topics:
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- The Barbary Wars were two wars fought between the United States and the Northwest African Barbary States in the early nineteenth century.
- The Barbary Wars were two wars fought at different times between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War or the Barbary Coast War, was the first of the two wars fought between the United States and the Northwest African Berber Muslim states, known collectively as the Barbary States.
- After the First Barbary War, the United States found its attention diverted to its deteriorating relationship with Great Britain over trade with France, which culminated in the War of 1812.
- The Second Barbary War, also known as the Algerine or Algerian War, occurred in 1815 under President Madison's administration.
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- Despite his efforts to decrease the military, Jefferson responded to the capture of American ships and sailors by pirates off the coast of North Africa by leading the United States into war against the Muslim Barbary States in 1801, the first conflict fought by Americans overseas.
- Both the administrations of Jefferson and Madison undertook actions against the Barbary States at different times.
- Jefferson led the First Barbary War, from 1801 to 1805, against pirates' cities in what are today Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria.
- Madison directed forces for the Second Barbary War in 1815.
- Under Madison's presidency, the War of 1812, often called the "Second War of American Independence," culminated from unresolved issues between the United States and Great Britain.
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- He had witnessed the Barbary Wars against the Islamic pirates of North Africa and the Greek War of Independence waged against the Ottoman Turks.
- Although he sympathized with the Greeks and held a deep mistrust of the defeated Muslims, he was reluctant to support America's involvement in continuing wars far from home.
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- Nonetheless, Jefferson responded to the capture of American ships and sailors by pirates off the coast of North Africa by leading the United States into war against the Muslim Barbary States in 1801, the first conflict fought by Americans overseas.
- In his foreign policy, Jefferson was torn between his impulse toward expansion and the need to avoid war with France, Britain, and Spain.
- In addition, Jefferson sought unsuccessfully to incorporate Spanish Florida (including the Gulf Coast west to Louisiana) into the Union and engaged in a punitive war with the Barbary States of North Africa.
- The global war between Great Britain and Napoleon's France was hurting American commerce.
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- The Articles allowed the Continental Congress to direct the American Revolutionary War and conduct domestic and international diplomacy.
- Even when not yet ratified, the Articles provided domestic and international legitimacy for the Continental Congress to direct the American Revolutionary War, conduct diplomacy with Europe, and deal with territorial issues and Indian relations.
- Unfortunately, after the war ended in 1783, the weakness of the Confederation government frustrated the ability of the government to conduct foreign policy.
- In 1789, Thomas Jefferson, concerned over the failure to fund an American naval force to confront the Barbary pirates, wrote to James Monroe, "It will be said there is no money in the treasury.
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- The treaty marked the beginning of the Anglo-Spanish War, which lasted until the Treaty of London in 1604.
- During her rule, trade and diplomatic relations developed between England and the Barbary states too.
- During her rule, trade and diplomatic relations developed between England and the Barbary states too.
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