tripolitan war
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The Tripolitan War
America’s first foreign war
From the Halls of Montezuma,
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Background• Jefferson’s primary
military action was to reduce the force
• Wanted America to have a reputation for ‘peaceful coercion’
• Pirates of Barbary States had been pillaging naval merchants for a while
To the shores of To the shores of Tripoli;Tripoli;
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Hostile Friction• But now the United States was not
under the wing of GB, who had been paying off the pirates
• The U.S. refused to pay tribute, and due piracy commenced
• Naval Act of 1794 ordered new frigates to take on the pirates
We fight our country's battles
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Showdown - 1801
• Pasha of Tripoli informally declared war by cutting down US flagpole
• Jefferson reluctantly dispatched the infant army
In the air, on In the air, on land, and sea; land, and sea;
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Onslaught• Fighting went on intermittently for the next four years
• Treaty of Peace extorted from Tripoli in 1805
• $60,000 – representing ransom payment for captured Americans
• Battle of Derne – 1st/deciding
First to fight for right and freedom
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Jeffs
• Small gunboats made up the “mosquito fleet”• Fast but frail• Jefferson instituted about 200• To guard American shores• Often mounting only one unwieldy gun, more of a menace to the crew than the prospective enemy
And to keep our honor clean;
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During a hurricane and tidal wave in Savannah, Georgia, a small gunboat was deposited eight miles inland in a cornfield, to the derisive glee of the Federalists
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How the Tripolitan War affected United States Foreign Policy and
Dependence• Use of British-held Gibraltar as a logistical base was essential to U.S. operations during the Barbary Wars.
• The loan of shallow-draft vessels from the Kingdom of Sicily enabled the U.S. Navy to operate in shallow waters to enforce a blockade of Tripolitan ports.
• During the Tripolitan War, American leaders supported the ruling Bashaw's brother, a rival for the throne, in an attempt to persuade the Bashaw to negotiate.
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