Tripolitan War

American  

noun

1. a war (1801–05) that Tripoli declared on the United States because of American refusal to pay tribute for the safe passage of shipping in Barbary Coastal waters.

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Example Sentences

As Jefferson’s secretary of state, he oversaw the Tripolitan War from 1801 to 1805.

From Salon

Author Roberts finally pins Lear to the mat as one of the culprits in our "disgraceful as well as heroic" Tripolitan War.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is all we have here to say about the Tripolitan war.

From Project Gutenberg

Among the other notable guests of the old hostelry were Louis Philippe, Jerome Bonaparte, Talleyrand, ex-Bishop of Autun when he was driven from France, John Adams, when as President in the early summer of 1800, he came down to look over his new field; Anthony Merry, Minister from England to the United States; Washington Irving, Count Volney, Humbolt, the geographer; Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat; Lorenzo Dow, the eccentric preacher; several young naval officers from the Tripolitan War; and John Randolph of Roanoke.

From Project Gutenberg

Their opposition to it was prompt, and Italy attempted by the Tripolitan War to rob the Turk of one of his distant provinces.

From Project Gutenberg