Related to Barbary States:Barbary Pirates Barbary States,term used for the North African states ofTripolitania,Tunisia,Algeria, andMorocco. From the 16th cent. Tripolitania, Tunisia, and Algeria were autonomous provinces of the Turkish Empire. Morocco pursued its own independent development. The corsa...
1.The Mediterranean coastal area of Barbary and the Barbary States. 2.A waterfront area of San Francisco, California, in the years after the 1849 gold rush. It was notorious for its gambling dens, saloons, brothels, and disreputable boarding houses. ...
The Demise of Barbary Macaque Habitat — Past and Present Forest Cover of the MaghrebThe eastern and western extremities of the Mediterranean Basin are separated by 3,700 kilometres, comparable to the distance that separates the east and west coast of the United States, yet the region has a ...
WhenThomas Jeffersonbecame president, he refused to pay any more tribute to the Barbary pirates. And in May 1801, two months after he was inaugurated, the pasha of Tripoli declared war on the United States. The US Congress never issued an official declaration of war in response, but Jefferson...
the mighty Barbary corsairs! These dangerous pirates and privateers operate from the coastal regions of North Africa, known as the Barbary Coast, a mixture of Muslim sovereign states belonging to the Ottoman Empire. Without the protection of the powerful British fleet, the US trade ships ...
Charles Sumner, White Slavery in the Barbary States, 1847 On 24th March 1620 Owen Phippen was sailing through the Mediterranean Sea on a trading trip when his ship was attacked by Barbary pirates. Owen and his crew were seized and, along with a number of other Europeans, for the next seven...
The case is derived from an authentic exchange of views between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on how the United States should protect its merchant shipping against the Barbary Pirates. Both men compare the cost of waging war against the pirates with the cost of paying ransom for captured U....
These dangerous pirates and privateers operate from the coastal regions of North Africa, known as the Barbary Coast, a mixture of Muslim sovereign states belonging to the Ottoman Empire. Without the protection of the powerful British fleet, the US trade ships traveling thr...
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Barbary Coast(bärˈbərē), waterfront area of San Francisco, Calif., in the years after the 1849 gold rush. Gamblers, gangsters, prostitutes, and confidence men flourished, and the brothels, saloons, and disreputable boardinghouses made the Barbary Coast—named after the pirate coast of...