America’s first foreign war on “the
shores of Tripoli” has apparently never ended
Posted By: Christopher L, 4/3/2026 2:59:02 PM
I have just finished two books that very nicely recount America’s first foreign war in the first decade of the 1800s, following its independence from Great Britain. The war was President Thomas Jefferson’s effort to stop the piracy of American ships by the three Islamic nations on the north coast of Africa — Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli (now in Libya) — then called the Barbary coast. When the ruler of Tripoli declared war against the U.S., Jefferson was glad to oblige.
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I have just finished two books that very nicely recount America’s first foreign war in the first decade of the 1800s, following its independence from Great Britain. The war was President Thomas Jefferson’s effort to stop the piracy of American ships by the three Islamic nations on the north coast of Africa — Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli (now in Libya) — then called the Barbary coast. When the ruler of Tripoli declared war against the U.S., Jefferson was glad to oblige.
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