Talk:Carrion Mantle/@comment-116.203.223.162-20141016100146/@comment-31722422-20170801060737

Sorry to correct you but US had almost nothing to do with the defeat of the Barbary pirates. It was chielfy the Royal Navy.

The Barbary states pretty much ceased attacking the English after 1676 as the Royal navy was too powerful and made a peace treaty with them after Tunis was bmbarded, however they continued to attack all other shipping except the US states who came under British Protection. After independence the US were fair game. The US made peace after the first Barbary war in 1801 but had to pay tribute and ransom that came to 20% of the US government's expenditure! The US tried to negotiate better terms in 1815 but only succeeded when Britain stepped in to support them. This was at the end of the Napoleonic wars when the Royal Navy ruled supreme and had turned their attention to ending the slave trade.

Britain's Lord Exmouth conducted negotoations in 1816 to get the Barbary states to stop slave raids on all christian states, however he eventually had to bombard Algiers to get them to stick to the agreement. Low level slave raids still continued and didn't stop completely until 1830 when the French conquered Algiers in 1830.