Regional1801 – 1815 · 14 years

Barbary Wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Estimated casualties

5.0Ksingle estimate · no range published

Naval conflicts against Barbary pirates threatening American shipping in Mediterranean.

Belligerents2

United States
Barbary States

ON THE MAPUnited States (1790)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Barbary Wars (1801 – 1815). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/barbary-wars · Sources & methodology