Our forgotten first war against Islamic terrorists
Posted By: DVC, 11/22/2023 11:18:12 AM
Most Americans seem to have forgotten our first war against Muslims. In the late 18th century, our objection to Islamist practice was their piracy and slaving against our ships and sailors in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1794, provoked by Algerian captures of American ships, our Congress authorized construction of the first six ships of the U.S. Navy, including the U.S.S. Constitution, still in commissioned service and now docked in Boston. In 1795, our diplomats negotiated treaties with the Muslim states of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli to pay them tribute for the privilege of free passage. But in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli, citing late payments of tribute, demanded additional money
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Most Americans seem to have forgotten our first war against Muslims. In the late 18th century, our objection to Islamist practice was their piracy and slaving against our ships and sailors in the Mediterranean Sea.
In 1794, provoked by Algerian captures of American ships, our Congress authorized construction of the first six ships of the U.S. Navy, including the U.S.S. Constitution, still in commissioned service and now docked in Boston.
In 1795, our diplomats negotiated treaties with the Muslim states of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli to pay them tribute for the privilege of free passage.
But in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli, citing late payments of tribute, demanded additional money
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I have known the history of this through various angles, like the building of the US Navy, largely to protect US merchant shipping from the "Barbary pirates" which were the Muslim North Aftican terrorists who had been rading commerce and taking slaves all along the coast of Europe for hundreds of years. Millions of white Europeans were captured by coastal raiding Muslim slavers in the 1600s through the 1800s when the US Navy and the British navy to some extent, ended it, with a violent attack. The USMC officer's ceremonial sword, to this day, takes it's design from a sword given by a North African chieftain in thanks to Lt. O'Bannon for his daring attack on the Barbary pirates.