The Barbary War

Background Information

The Barbary War was also known as the Tripolitanian War. It was a series of naval conflicts between the United States and Muslim Nations (2 Barbary wars in total). Both wars were fought for the same reason but just at different times. The individuals they fought against were pirates and privateers who were spread out all through the Mediterranean sea. These pirates would go around to Spain, Italy, and France to capture Christian-European slaves for the Muslim-Arab slave market and they would do so by violence and or random attack.