>Barbary Wars >Handful of second rate American ships and,

>>2436905
Europeans were pathetic

how many bombs is it going to take to get you shitskins and yuropoors to understand that americans are the greatest people on the planet?

>>2436905
Because of the Napoleonic Wars, 30 years war, etc. Everytime European powers waged war against each other (which was pretty often), they were too busy to deal with pirate bases and Barbary sandniggers always increased their activity. Notice that like a few decades after the Napoleonic wars ended, France conquered Algeria fairly quickly.

>>2436905
Because they weren't the greatest threats in the Mediterranean, just a useful tool for European nations that couldn't resort to their own privateering any longer and so paid off the Moors as their proxies against their rivals. That and the beys of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli were never that powerful to begin with, and were merely overseers of a mostly independent pirate economy they could somewhat influence and took bribes from. When push came to shove, they were easy to put down with gunboat diplomacy and a little palm greasing into the right hands to raise a more amicable pretender to their throne.

The Americans were just more amateur about it, and decided that seven adventurers with some pocket money could feasibly set out from Egypt on foot with a few hundred Greek and Arab mercenaries to install a friendly puppet on the throne of Tripoli, because unlike the other powers they couldn't overcome Tripoli's podunk harbor with their tiny navy.

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>>2436905
>Fucking how?

Stephan fucking Decatur

>>2436905
>Better yet, why didn't France or England do this if it was so easy?

Because they were kinda busy doing something else
Ever heard of the Napoleonic Wars?

>>2437065

There was an entire 18th century, fucker