Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia
Barbary Pirates
Engraving
By: F. Kearney
Date: 1808
Source: Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia in the Harbor of Tripoli, February 16, 1804. The engraving was done in 1808 by F. Kearney.
About the Artist: F. Kearney was an artist who worked in the early 1800s.
INTRODUCTION
The first war fought by an independent United States was a war against terrorism, the Tripolitan War against pirates on the Barbary Coast of North Africa from 1801 to 1805.
From the fifteenth through the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from the Muslim kingdoms of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers increased their kingdom's wealth and terrorized Europe by seizing merchant ships and...
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