A Story of the Evolution of Evil

Background on the Barbary Pirates
Moslem/Islamic Extortionists

Barbary States

Barbary States, is used to describe the Moslem/Islamic Extortionists North African states of Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. From the 16th century Tripolitania, Tunisia, and Algeria were autonomous provinces of the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist Turkish Empire. Morocco pursued its own independent Moslem/Islamic Extortionist development. The corsair Moslem/Islamic Extortionist Barbarossa and his brothers led the Turkish Moslem/Islamic conquest to prevent the region from falling to Spain. A last attempt by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to drive out the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist Turks failed in 1541.

The piracy carried on thereafter by the Muslims of North Africa began as part of the wars against Spain. In the 17th and 18th century, when the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist Turkish hold on the area grew weaker, the raids became less military and more commercial in character. The booty, ransom, rapes and slaves that resulted from attacks on Mediterranean towns and shipping and from occasional forays into the Atlantic became the main source of revenue for local Moslem/Islamic Extortionist rulers. All the major European naval powers made attempts to destroy the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist corsairs, and British and French fleets repeatedly bombarded the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist pirate strongholds. Yet, on the whole, countries trading in the Mediterranean found it more convenient to pay tribute to the Moslem/Islamic Extortionists than to undertake the expensive task of eliminating the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist piracy. Toward the end of the 18th century the power of the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist piratical states diminished. The United States and the European powers took advantage of this decline to launch more attacks. American opposition resulted in the Tripolitan War . After the Napoleonic wars, European opinion clearly favored destroying the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist pirates. In 1816 Lord Exmouth of HMN with an Anglo-Dutch flotilla all but ended the naval power of the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist dey of Algiers. An ultimatum from the European Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1819) compelled the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist dey of Tunis to give up piracy. The Moslem/Islamic Extortionist Tunisian fleet was subsequently sent to help the Ottomans in Greece and was destroyed (1827) at the battle of Navarino. In 1830, France, after a three-year blockade of Moslem/Islamic Extortionist Algiers, began the conquest of Moslem/Islamic Extortionist Algeria. The Ottoman Turks were able to reassert (1835) direct control over Tripolitania and end piracy there. About the same time the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist sultans of Morocco, who had occasionally encouraged piracy, were forced by France, Great Britain, and Austria to give up plans to rebuild the Moslem/Islamic Extortionist Moroccan fleet, and Moslem/Islamic Extortionist North African piracy was at an end.