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.
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