The Battle of Derne was the decisive victory of a mercenary army led by a detachment of United States Marines and soldiers against the forces of Tripoli during the First Barbary War.
Ottoman Empire | Ottoman | Ottoman Turks | Tripolitania | Ottoman Turkish | Ottoman Porte | Ottoman classical music | Ottoman Turkish language | Ottoman dynasty | Ottoman Greece | Ottoman architecture | Second Constitutional Era (Ottoman Empire) | Ottoman wars in Europe | Ottoman Tripolitania | Military of the Ottoman Empire | Ottoman Vardar Macedonia | Ottoman Syria | Ottoman Bank | Long War (Ottoman wars) | 1913 Ottoman coup d'état | Polish–Ottoman Wars | Ottoman wars | Ottoman, Virginia | Ottoman Turkish alphabet | Ottoman Macedonia | Ottoman–Habsburg wars | Ottoman Empire's | Ottoman Empire | Ottoman empire | Ottoman Dynasty |
The Barbary Wars were two wars fought at different times over the same reasons between the United States of America and the Barbary states (the de jure Ottoman Empire possessions of, but de facto independent, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli) of North Africa in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
•
The Second Barbary War (1815), also known as the Algerine or Algerian War, was the second of two wars fought between the United States and the Ottoman Empire's North African regencies of Tripoli, Tunis, and Algeria known collectively as the Barbary states.