✦ History

Barbary Wars

May 10, 1801 – June 19, 1815

The United States and Sweden fought the Barbary states of North Africa, which demanded tribute and attacked merchant ships. Two wars, in 1801–1805 and 1815, ended the tribute payments by the United States.

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Battles 2

May 10, 1801 – June 10, 1805
First Barbary War Mediterranean Sea Thomas Jefferson, Gustav IV Adolf, Richard Valentine Morris
June 17–19, 1815
Second Barbary War American victory Mediterranean Sea James Madison, Omar Agha, Stephen Decatur

Key commanders

United States 8

James Madison belligerent leader Stephen Decatur military commander Thomas Jefferson belligerent leader Gustav IV Adolf belligerent leader Richard Valentine Morris military commander Richard Dale military commander William Eaton military commander Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies belligerent leader

Regency of Algiers 1

Omar Agha military commander

Ottoman Tripolitania 1

Yusuf Karamanli military commander

Ottoman Algeria 3

Raïs Hamidou military commander Yusuf Karamanli military commander Omar Agha military commander