European maritime powers pay the tribute demanded…

1684 CE to 1827 CE

European maritime powers pay the tribute demanded by the rulers of the privateering states of North Africa (Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco) to prevent attacks on their shipping by corsairs.

United States merchant ships, no longer covered by British tribute payments after the American Revolution, are seized and sailors enslaved in the years that follow independence.

In 1794 the United States Congress appropriates funds for the construction of warships to counter the privateering threat in the Mediterranean.

Despite the naval preparations, the United States concludes a treaty with the dey of Algiers in 1797, guaranteeing payment of tribute amounting to ten million US dollars over a twelve-year period in return for a promise that Algerian corsairs will not molest United States shipping.

Payments in ransom and tribute to the privateering states amounts to twenty percent of United States government annual revenues in 1800.

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Algiers > Alger Alger Algeria View →

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Islam View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Ottoman Empire View → Ottoman Algeria View → Tripolitania (Regency of Tripoli, Tripoli-in-the-West), Ottoman eyalet of View → Tunis, Ottoman eyalet of View → Morocco, 'Alawi (Filali) Sultanate of View → United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View →

Commodities
Slaves View → Money View →

Subjects
Commerce View → Watercraft View → Conflict View → Faith View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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