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The Barbary Wars were the first major American wars fought entirely outside the New World, and in the Arab World. [4] [5] The wars were largely a reaction to piracy by the Barbary states. Since the 16th century, North African pirates had captured ships and even raided European coastal areas across the Mediterranean Sea. Originally starting out ...
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681 Barbaria by Jan Janssonius, shows the coast of North Africa, an area known in the 17th century as Barbaria, c. 1650 An Algerine pirate ship A man from the Barbary states A Barbary pirate, Pier Francesco Mola, 1650
The Barbary slave trade came to an end in the early years of the 19th century, after the United States and Western European allies won the First and Second Barbary Wars against the pirates and the region was conquered by France, putting an end to the trade by the 1830s.
The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War and the Barbary Coast War, was a conflict during the 1801–1815 Barbary Wars, in which the United States fought against Ottoman Tripolitania. Tripolitania had declared war against the United States over disputes regarding tributary payments in exchange for a cessation of ...
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1640s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1640 ... a Barbary corsair, commanding a 22-gun ...
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1650s is a chronological list of key ... Royalist privateers in Ireland and Dunkirk as well as Barbary corsairs in ...
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1620s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between ... the Younger, a Dutch Barbary Pirate ...
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1630s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1630 and 1639. Events. 1631 June 20 ...