The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War or the Barbary Coast War, was the first of two wars fought between the United States and the Northwest African Berber Muslim states known collectively as the Barbary States. These were Tripoli and Algiers, which were quasi-independent entities nominally belonging to the Ottoman Empire, and the independent Sultanate of Morocco.
“Our trade to Portugal, Spain, and the Mediterranean is annihilated unless we do something decisive.
“Our trade to Portugal, Spain, and the Mediterranean is annihilated unless we do something decisive.