British Couple Reacts America Dismantles Pirate Nations For Touching Their Boats - The Barbary Wars 

“Millions in defense before a cent in tribute” that lines so hard😤😤

"Hey Morocco, stop fucking around or you'll find out" "Understood, sorry sir."

The US marine corps hymn begins with the words “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”

The fact that even the Brits understand just what a cardinal sin it was the desecrate our flag says something.

Stephen Decatur was an OG. Dude was no joke. All these dudes rep'd the Marines and the new US as a country you can't sleep on.

If you havent seen it yet, Seal Team Rescue of Jessica Buchanan. Youll learn how we despised dealing with terrorists so much we spent over $100m to rescue an american from pirates rather than pay a like $40m ransom.

You'd be surprised how many times America has had smaller numbers and still win

The politician who negotiated with the pirates without permission is the start of the saying in the US military, "Get the job done before the politicians f*ck it all up," which was also what a general of the US said when the first Gulf War kicked off.

I'm a American and its Sad that our younger generation has no clue what America 🇺🇸 is our what our founding Fathers fought for.

Every Marine learns these stories in Basic Training. After my first tour in Vietnam I returned to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) in San Diego, Calif. where I instructed Marine Recruits and permanent personnel. I taught 15 different subjects during this 4 year posting before returning to my 2nd tour in Vietnam Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71 0331 Infantry Machine guns. 0369 Infantry Unit Leader

"Do not mess with America's boats. ... Especially if they happen to be named 'Enterprise'."

The U.S.S. Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship in the world, and is one of the vessels that was built to fight pirates.

For every story like this you hear, there’s a thousand that have been lost to the ages. This is why recording history is so important.

All the stories that he tells are true. Most are written in history books and/or original documents kept in the Library of Congress.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the best of friends until they started to disagree over polices, so they stopped talking until later on in life the made up, writing to each other until they died and they both died on the 4th of July independence day.

The Barbary pirates were basically state sponsored terrorists controlled by the Ottoman Empire at the time, which is why they had a fairly strong naval presence

It was actually the War of 1812 when The Star Spangled Banner that later became our national anthem was written.

in the 1700s the US only had 13 colonies, the UK had basically half the world under its rule

The sad part is most of the sailors were sold as slaves during the war of 1812. They were never recorded. How many husbands and fathers never came home. To remain forever a prisoner of war.

History is repeating itself. The Barbary wars can easily be compared to the current situation with the Houthi Rebels in the Red Sea

I bet Morocco was very happy to have made that treaty 😂

I found a really good book detailing the commissioning, building, and service of these first ships of the United States Navy named "Six Frigates" and I cannot recommend it enough. Wild ride. America is also pretty decent at recording the insanity that we do, because the precedent was set early on that Americans do Wild Things for the sake of whatever cause boiled our blood, and there has to be documentation somewhere about it. Lots of documentation. In triplicate.

Brilliant video y'all, I'm 72 and know this story from school, they don't teach this anymore n America. Thank y'all so much for putting it out there for new generation. Freedom is not Free. 🇺🇸❤️👍

"It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?” -Norm MacDonald

These stories would not only have been something passed down to relatives, but these would also have been recorded by the US military and archived as historic records.

Interesting fact: Many Native Hawaiians from the Kingdom of Hawaii were recruited to aid US Navy and Marines during the early pirate hunting expeditions.

You should watch Angry veteran tells 700 red coats to get off his lawn

The revolutionary war. UK had 900k soldiers fight. Americans had 180-200k soldiers it was really lopsided

There is still original written documents from that time. They all kept Journal's back then. Very interesting things!

You've got to wonder whether Stephen Decatur didn't really care about pirates at all he was just pissed off to have to keep sailing back and forth across the Atlantic. 😉

If there's one thing the US Military has always been exceptionally good at it's keeping records. It would take a lifetime to read all the stories of legendary Americans that are just sitting in the Library of Congress.

According to two separate sites I used to calculate how much 225,000 dollars from 1801 is worth today I get $5,497,901.57. And remember thats in addition to whatever the original tribute was.

its called a "Protection Racket." The mobster tells the store owner to pay the mobster money every week so the mobster won't break the store owner's leg.

The names of various currencies back in those days were references to a specific weight of a chosen metal (usually silver or gold). The US Dollar back then was defined as 371.25 grains (24.057 g) (0.7735 troy ounces) of fine silver while the UK Pound Sterling was quite literally a pound of Sterling Silver (240 pence divided into 20 shillings so 12 pence per shilling). Since the names are definitions of an amount by weight that meant it took 18.85 dollars to make a pound (I'm oversimplifying a bit because the US used fine silver while the UK used Sterling silver so the actual exchange ratio would be different based on the differences in the metal). Anyways, going off of silver prices as of today of $28.36 per troy ounce, that means an OG US Dollar would be worth $21.94 today. So that extra $225,000 surcharge demanded from Jefferson would be a tribute hike of $4,935,705.50 at today's silver rates. And this is in an era where an average workman would earn a wage of $65 per year ($1,425.87 today). That was a LOT of money being demanded and I'm guessing that "temporary" penalty wouldn't be so temporary.

How do we battle in the desert? See Desert Storm, Operation Freedom, etc... Or check the battles from World War 2 in parts of the deserts in Africa.

oh bless her heart 🤐

"Why did he do that?" Because he was a glory-seeking bureaucrat working with the Department of State. The State Department has always been the bane of those of us who plan/conduct military and special operations. This is from State's irritating desire to hold diplomacy as the goal rather than success of the mission.

At 17:45, love the sarcasm and foreshadowing of America's tendency to achieve foreign policy aims through proxy wars.

Funnily enough the US does have a special forces unit that specializes in having rebel forces fight against a ruling dictator. Lmao

The Fat Electrician RU-vid channel is a great place to be entertained while learning about little known history.

We fought in a desert. Secret to success: hydrate and replace your salts

Not to flex but the British Empire did indeed were defeated by a ragtag army of whiskey drinkin, tobacco farmin, woodsmen that were extremely pissed 😂

Stephen Decatur! That's who my city (Decatur, Illinois) was named after... We even have a Stephen Decatur school (middle school now, was a high school for a long time). He, along with Abraham Lincoln (who had a cabin near here before he went to Springfield) are the most talked and taught about and praised U.S. leaders in our area.

As an FYI, you can tour Decatur's house if you vosit Washington, D.C. It is only a few blocks from the White House.

The journals and logs of many of these adventures can be found at the USS Constitution Museum in Boston, MA.

I'm 56 and grew up on stories like this. At one time they used to teach us in school stories like this. Afraid they don't do that anymore. Not just military stories either as I will always remember the old tribal story of the princess and rabbit on the moon.

The Navy was founded to protect the country and shipping. The marines were founded to fight the Barbary fight pirates.

The cause of The war of 1812, had a lot more to do with the Napoleonic wars than with pirates. The war with Napoleon was causing a people shortage, in The Royal Navy, which lead them to stop and board American ships, so they could press American sailors to serve, in The Royal Navy. This was one of the causes, anyway. Madison rewarded any commercial American vessels, that captured and pilfered English ships. Causing one London newspaper to refer to the city of Baltimore as a den of pirates. This is why Baltimore was the British army's objective, after they burned down the White House. A storm kicked up and put out most the fires, in the capital. That storm also formed a tornado, I shit you not. The tornado scattered the British army, temporarily. The War of 1812 is fun to study.

He made them offers they could not refuse......probably a tip from the Sicilians!...ala The Godfather.

Dude, yer ol' lady is smokin' Get it, getit- go go!!!!

Things like this speckle all through history. If it was made into a movie no one would believe it. Reminds me of Agincourt, The 300 Spartans, Audie Murphy, Sgt York....

Check out the Lakota Sioux, the Commanche and the Apache Native Americans. you will be impressed.

I'm American and I just wanna point out that the French played a major role in the US gaining independence as the Continental Navy (the navy before the US Navy) had zero chance against the British Navy, so removing the British blockades would've been next to impossible without the French Navy. French soldiers also helped train the American colonial militias. Also, it was the Treaty of Paris that saw the US come into existence in 1783 and be officially recognized by the French and the British. The US wouldn't become a major player on the world stage until at least WW1. I don't even think they kept a standing army during peace time before then.

A quick note - at the time, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli were city-states and not yet independent countries. That happened much, much later.

Actually the U.S. and U.K. had big beef for the longest time lol we really only started to get along around WWI (or was it WWII?… it was one of the WW’s)

Paying off the pirates to leave them alone is like the mob selling insurance to shops and businesses so they would be left alone.

Their are Government Archives that have copies of Jeffersons lletters and Decaturs etc.

The history of Tripoli, and so forth, is memorialized in United States Marine Hall of Fame

What was crazy was all of Europe were just paying the Barbary states. It wasn't until the USA defeated them that England, Spain, and all the rest decided to stop being punked & "stand on business" with them. Lol

There are two rules the world needs to abide by and that is don’t touch our flag and most importantly DON’T TOUCH OUR FUCKING BOATS/SHIPS other wise don’t expect mercy cause we have nun to give only the god himself has both compassion and mercy and we ain’t him but we’ll sure send you to him hence the term “lay them to waste and let god sort them out” 🤷🏽‍♂️ personally I feel like that’s a fair deal no?

Most all nations keep logs from military leaders then place hem in National Museums.

check your timeline, we won our independence in 1775 the Civil war was in 1860

You must remember that communications took weeks. Negotiations were taking place while the attack was being planned and undertaken.

Decatur had at least 10 towns named after him on the East Coast of the US alone... I'm pretty sure there's one on the West Coast too... He was an ABSOLUTE GANGSTER.

ok, disclaimer, i am an American, so when i say that i love this story.. i am Biased. but i absolutely love watching people from other countries reacting to this story. The Fat Electrician is an amazing story teller. yes he embellishes some things for dramatic effect, but it is always obvious when he does it and it is always backed up by facts. Education while entertaining.. beautiful. thanks for your video as well. this was great.

To be fair about our revolutionary war, we had a standing army augmented by militias as well as financial, materiel, and manpower help from France. We didn’t do it alone. I love my country for what we achieved, but we weren’t just a bunch of farmers.

"Tattered Ensign" is a brilliant novel detailing the history of the USS Constitution, up to the '60's..... IIRC.

Did he maybe just explain why large chain stores really don't stop shop lifters, it encourages shoplifting at smaller stores as well and helps run them out of business?

The British soldiers marched in a line out in the wide open while the country farmers fought like they were hunting deer or turkeys. British soldiers wouldn't break away from the style of battle they were trained to do. Kentucky long rifles were acute from hundreds of yards away and British soldiers were taught to wait until they could see the whites of their enemies eyes

17:50 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'

The Barbary Pirates go way back. I recall a story about them attacking Italy after the 1490s.

yep you can just hit the arrow left key rewinds 5 seconds

I served with the double great grandson of Steven Decatur in 5th SF. You can tell they’re built different

Hello from America. The great state of Ohio. Just found your channel and enjoy you 2 immensely. Am quite amazed you are so into America. I am intrigued by Britain.

The story of the US Navy and piracy didn't end in the early part of the 1800s because over 200 years later, Somali Pirates started doing the same thing. Shipping companies had made an unspoken deal with them that their crews wouldn't fight back as long as the pirates didn't kill them and ransomed them off instead along with their ships. Maersk Alabama with an American crew was then boarded by pirates--for the first time in two centuries--but the crew fought back wounding one of them. While most of the crew had locked themselves in a storage room, they did so after disconnecting the steering gear, shutting down the boilers and sending out a distress signal. The US Navy then went into action sending ships to confront the pirates. The pirates eventually fled in a life boat with the ship's captain held hostage. One of the US Navy ships ended up placing snipers on board to take care of the problem. From there they were able to get a thermal image of the pirates inside the covered life boat and killed all of them with head shots. This started an international effort organized by the US to rid the horn of Africa of piracy, which in the end was successful. Moral of the story: the US doesn't like pirates.

I should point out that Fort Sumter, while not being a boat, is on a tiny island. In short, don't even come close to messing with America's boats.

MARINE CORP. Anthem, " From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli ". They are our ARMOR! Semper Phi🎉

The story is don’t mess with Marines

"I'll make him an offer that he can't refused." (The Godfather)

225,000.00 then is actualy worth about 510,000,000.00 today

We had the civil war 80 years after the revolution. We were armed because of the French Indian war, and to protect ourselves in the wilderness. Soo, when the brits got pushy we kicked them out and became our own country. We built the Navy to protect our ships.

During the war, the U.S.S. Constitution was introduced to the world. And she was glorious.

America said "Sea thieves touch my boats? No.".

@21:12 it is believable, there was barely any gun tech then lol no rifling hell, blackbeard would light fires in his hair to startle enemy, and look up Miyamoto Mushashi

The "protection" racket is as old as the hills in the UK as well as the US. The Barbary pirates were just doing it on a national scale.

Lucky bastard got him a dime frfr she's drop dead gorgeous

Yall should react to oversimplified US civil war and also revolution. Good video's in the same grain of most of your recent stuff

She called him darlin pie. Lucky guy,

We were English back then before the revolutionary war. That's why we were called colonist. We were People from England that came over and colonized America. Then we had the revolutionary war in 1776 and became our own country. That's why we referred to Britain as the mother country. We got tired of being taxed by the good old King. We pushed back . Then the king tried to take our powder and our guns and disarm us. And we said hell no kick their ass and then we became America. Lol

Damn these two know less American history than I know British history 😂

not going through all the comments, but the Civil War came after the Revolutionary war. Just using major wars, the list goes like this Revolutionary War, then the American-Algerian War which lead up to the Barbary Pirates which is what The Fat Electrician is talking about basically, War of 1812, then another Barbary Pirate war shortly after, then the Civil War. However you are correct that there were only farmers and other common folk that made up the Army on the American Side. So it was close to 100 years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Another reason why we did pretty good was we did not fight the same way the British did. We learned Guerilla warfare from the Native Tribes basically and we used times when Armies were suppose to be resting for holidays as a time to strike.

American history in 2 words "well technically..."

That was a particularly satisfying episode, but may I say because one of you is gorgeous I would watch the two of you watching a box of cereal!

Why did she call him a fat electrician? For explaining history? Wow 👌

Dunno if anyone else mentioned but the story of O'Bannon and the March through the desert was made into a movie. Its a classic American movie from the 40s or 50s.

Let me see, three Barbary Pirates for each Marine. Looks like the pirates are outnumbered.

The American Revolution by Oversimplified

The best calculator I have found so far, starting at 1800 converting to 2024: $225,000 dollars converts to $5.5 million. 1 USD then is approximately 24.80 USD today. So basically "above and beyond whatever you're currently paying me, I want an extra 5.5 million dollars because "you are now the leader of your nation" The treaty the diplomat made was technically impossible for the "pirate king" to abide by in 1807, since it promised the return of the USS Philadelphia as one of the terms, and by the time it was signed, the USS Philadelphia had already been completely burned into wreckage and then lay at the bottom of the ocean.

The US has special warfare schools. Artic, desert, jungle as well as urban warfare.

225k in 1790 is roughly 7.5b today