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 ...