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1795 |
In Tripoli Pasha Yusef Karamanli deposed his older brother Hamet in a bloodless coup. Links: Libya, Tripoli 
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1801 May 14 |
The Pasha of Tripoli symbolically declared war on the US by cutting down the glagstaff in front of the US Consulate, after learning that Pres. Jefferson had refused to pay a renewed tribute of $225,000. Links: USA, Libya, Tripoli
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1803 Oct |
The USS Philadelphia was captured by the Tripolitans. 307 sailors were held for ransom by the Pasha of Tripoli. Links: USA, Libya, Ship, Tripoli
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1805 Apr 27 |
US navy ships began to bombard the Tripoli port of Derna. Mercenaries gathered in Egypt and a small contingent of US Marines under former Tunis consul William Eaton attacked Tripoli and captured the city of Derna [later part of Libya]. Links: Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Tripoli
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1815 Aug 5 |
A peace treaty with Tripoli, which followed treaties with Algeria (Jun 30) and Tunis (Aug 28), brought an end to the Barbary Wars. Commodores Stephen Decatur and William Bainbridge had conducted successful operations against the Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Links: Algeria, USA, Libya, Tunisia, Tripoli
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1823 |
British Major Dixon Denham and Captain Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) entered Northern Nigeria from the north, crossing the desert from Tripoli. Links: Britain, Scotland, Nigeria, Explorer, Tripoli
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1825 Jul 16 |
Alexander Gordon Laing (32), British Army Major, set off on camel from Tripoli in an attempt to become the 1st European to cross the Sahara Desert and reach the fabled city of Timbuktu (Mali). Links: Mali, Britain, Scotland, Explorer, Tripoli
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