Second Barbary War
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The Second Barbary War, also known as the U.S.–Algerian War and the Algerine War, was a brief military conflict between the United States and the North African state of Algiers in 1815.
Commodore Decatur’s Squadron capturing the Algerian pirate ship Mashuda, on 17 June 1815, Irwin Bevan
Decatur's squadron off Algiers
First Barbary War
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The First Barbary War, 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. Tri
Second Barbary War
…century. Algerian pirates and privateers intermittently preyed on American ships, with Algiers extracting annual tribute from the U.S. since 1795; the First Barbary War in the early 19th century, fought primarily against Algiers' neighbors, failed to stop the problem. In February 1815, after the end of the War of 1812…
USS Enterprise fighting the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli by William Bainbridge Hoff, 1878
Captain William Bainbridge paying tribute to the Dey of Algiers, 1800
Portrait of Yusuf Karamanli
An artist's depiction of the Philadelphia aground off Tripoli, in October 1803