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First Barbary War: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: American Battlefield Trust - The Barbary Wars. Aug 30, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 28, 2026
Add new Web site: Liberty University - Scholars Crossing - To the Shores of Tripoli: America’s First Crusade to Cement Her Sovereignty (PDF). Nov 11, 2025
Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - “To the Shores of Tripoli…”: The Tripolitan War & Birth of the Navy. Jun 25, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Paine, "War Is Better Than Tribute" (The Tripolitan War of 1801�1805) (PDF). Jan 21, 2025
Add new Web site: U.S. Naval Institute - Counterinsurgency to the Shores of Tripoli. Nov 29, 2024
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Barbary Wars. Aug 08, 2024
Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - The Barbary Wars. Mar 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Naval History and Heritage Command - Barbary War (1801-1805). Dec 20, 2023
Add new Web site: USS Constitution Museum - First Barbary War (1803 – 1805). Sep 14, 2023
Add new Web site: Center for International Maritime Security - The Shores of Tripoli: Waging the First Barbary War. Jul 31, 2023
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Putting Pirates in Their Place. Jun 13, 2023
Add new Web site: Office of the Historian - Barbary Wars, 1801�1805 and 1815�1816. Apr 10, 2023
Add new Web site: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - First Barbary War. Oct 10, 2022
Add new Web site: American History Central - First Barbary War. Apr 22, 2022
Add new Web site: University of Michigan - William L. Clements Library - The First Barbary War: The Tripolitan War. Mar 24, 2021
Changed article title from "Tripolitan War" to "First Barbary War." Apr 04, 2019
Add new Web site: The Mariner's Museum - The Barbary Wars. Jan 29, 2019
Add new Web site: American History Central - Encyclopedia of American History - First Barbary War. May 19, 2014
Add new Web site: Wars of the World - Tripolitan War. Apr 13, 2011
Add new Web site: History Central - Tripolitan War. Apr 13, 2011
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - History - Tripolitan War. Apr 13, 2011
Add new Web site: United States History - Tripolitan War. Apr 13, 2011
Added image of the seizure of the Philadelphia by Tripolitan gunboats. May 19, 2010
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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