USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli, Yusuf Qaramanli, citing late payments of tribute, demanded additional tribute and declared war on the United States. The United States successfully defeated Qaramanli’s forces with a combined naval and land assault by the United States Marine Corps.

Detailed explanation-2: -Following the Revolutionary War and the formal re-establishment of the Marine Corps on 11 July 1798, Marines saw action in the quasi-war with France, landed in Santo Domingo, and took part in many operations against the Barbary pirates along the “Shores of Tripoli".

Detailed explanation-3: -As a lieutenant, on the night of February 16, 1804, Decatur led a raiding party into Tripoli harbor by night to destroy a captured U.S. frigate, Philadelphia, that Tripoli was turning to its own use. This bold action made him the youngest man to earn a promotion to captain in the history of the Navy.

Detailed explanation-4: -After Thomas Jefferson became president of the US in March 1801, he sent a US Naval fleet to the Mediterranean to combat the Barbary pirates.