In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships ... the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 ...

USS Tripoli (LHA-7) will switch homeports from Naval Base San Diego to Sasebo, Japan, and become the Navy’s forward-deployed big-deck amphibious warship in the Indo-Pacific, Naval Surface Force ...

alleging that Gaspar fought the Barbary pirates of Tripoli before making captain, then sailed to the Caribbean to fight and capture the buccaneers, before rising to admiral of the Atlantic Fleet ...