War of Tripoli

The War of Tripoli (in English Tripolitan War ) (1801-1805) also called the First barbaresque war ( First Barbary War ), war of the coast of Barbaresque the ( Barbary Coast War ) was the very first war engaged by the United States of America after their independence and the first of the two wars which they carried out against the states of the Maghreb, then known under the name of barbaresque states, that were the sultanate independent of the Morocco and 3 regencies of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, provinces, but in the facts quasi-independent, of the Ottoman Empire.

Context

In the Mediterranean, nations of Europe were seen in the obligation to pay a tribute with the states of the Maghreb to protect their commercial interests under penalty of seeing their ships attacked by the corsairs barbareques. With the independence of the the United States, the American tradind ships lost the protection of Royal Navy. Following the example European nations, the United States yielded initially with the requirements of the Othoman provinces, and signed various treaties (see peace treaty and of friendship with the bey Algiers and that with the bey of Tunis)

However, when the Dey of Tripoli increased the amount of protection, the tension increased, and the United States refused to pay the tribute for the passage of their ships in 1801. The Dey of Tripoli then incited his allies of Tunis and Algiers to declare the Guerre with the United States young people who seemed remote and still fragile.

The war

August 1st A squadron of the US Navy was sent.

Peace treaty and continuations

By a treaty signed on June 4th, 1805, the United States is released from the obligation to pay tribute in Tripolitains. As from this date, an American squadron will wet in the Mediterranean permanently, except the period of the American Civil War but one second war éclatat in spring 1815 and one naval forwarding was carried out by Decatur against the Dey of Algiers.

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