Jefferson Sends Navy to Tripoli
1801
Fed up with paying annual tribute to the Barbary corsairs, Thomas Jefferson quietly dispatched a small squadron to the Mediterranean. The First Barbary War would drag on for four years, produce a marine hymn about the shores of Tripoli, and give the young American navy its first foreign campaign and its first legend.
In context
Also in 1801 (7 other events on record)
- Act of Union Creates United Kingdom · Europe · Politics
- Jefferson's First Inaugural · North America · Politics
- Concordat With Rome · Europe · Religion
- British Victory at Alexandria · Middle East · War
- Piazzi Discovers Ceres · Europe · Science
- Tsar Paul Strangled · Europe · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.