New Series Launches Tomorrow: Key Battles of the Barbary Wars (with James Early)

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🗓️ 15 October 2024

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James Early and Scott will be doing a nine-part series starting tomorrow called Key Battles of the Barbary Wars (1801-1815). We look at an infant United States try to assert itself in the Atlantic World, as North African pirates demand tribute, capture crews, and do everything it can to humiliate the nation as European powers looked on, wondering if the new nation would be project any sort of power beyond its shores.

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0:00.0	Scott here with a short announcement, very pleased to let you know that tomorrow I'm launching a new mini series with James Early called Key Battles of the Barbary Wars.
0:08.5	James and I have done many mini series together, including Key Battles of the Civil War, key battles of the Revolutionary War,
0:14.1	key battles of World War I, and key battles of World War II in the Pacific.
0:17.6	In this series, we're going to a lesser known war, the pitted the infant United States
0:21.5	against the Barbary States of North Africa in the early 1800s.
0:24.9	The Barbary Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa
0:28.9	that includes modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya from from 1815. These North African states would capture
0:36.0	American merchant ships, demand tribute, enslave the crews, hold them for ransom, at a time
0:40.6	when America was an infant naval power, and had almost no ability to fight beyond its shores.
0:45.5	The United States learned that that would have to quickly change or would forever be seen as somebody that could be bullied around.
0:50.7	The Barbary Wars have everything, including ship to ship fighting in the age of sail,
0:54.3	frigate battles, and a particularly daring overland expedition of 500 miles, where U.S. Marines and
1:00.2	Middle Eastern mercenaries traveled from Alexandria across the Libyan desert to a tripolitanian city
1:05.2	and were able to successfully conquer it leading to that immortal line in the Marines anthem from the
1:09.4	halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. The first episode is released tomorrow and there'll be a new one every week on Thursday for the next nine weeks
1:15.8	regular history unplugged episodes will be released on Tuesday. Hope you enjoy this series.
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1:31.0	as well as the faith, religion, and church founded to honor and
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