Why was the USA the first to deal with the Barbary Pirates? (Short Animated Documentary)

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The Barbary Pirates harassed shipping across the Mediterranean for centuries and in spite of this, it wasn't a European power who struck the first blow against them. It was the Americans in the early 19th century who started their downfall after fighting two wars against them. To find out why it was the Americans that did this instead of the French, the Spanish or the British watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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@edsr164 10 месяцев назад

Fun fact: after captain Phillips was freed from Somali pirates in 2009, the US Navy arrested the single surviving pirate and had him transported back to the U.S. for prosecution. He was prosecuted and sentenced based on the anti-piracy laws that Congress enacted to fight the Barbary pirates. The first in 180 or so years.

@collinthegamer510 10 месяцев назад

Chad US Navy 🗿

@kirbyculp3449 10 месяцев назад

I seem to remember a press release that he got a college degree in prison.

@buttjuice858 10 месяцев назад

Maybe this law will be proposed for repeal by representative Ilhan Omar for oppressing pirates and Somalis or a double jeopardy points of oppressing Somali pirates. She really wants to defund the police. Especially the sea police.

@mahershala4015 10 месяцев назад

Insha’Allah he makes it home

@ennui9745 10 месяцев назад

@@mahershala4015 He probably will, the US aren't barbarians, unlike Muslim slave raiders and pirates.

@-socialcredit 10 месяцев назад

The US and Sweden fighting off pirates in North Africa sounds like some weird timeline from one of my Victoria 2 playthroughs

@Handygamer 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, especially with the added caveat that no other European countries felt compelled to do something about the whole "getting hijacked and/or extorted" business going on in the Mediterranean. But I guess the Suez Canal was only built in the late 1860s, so at that point the Med was likely more of a backwater relative to the triangular trade going on in the Atlantic or the spices coming in from the Pacific. But that's really just a guess.

@Kingdemonpigfromhell 10 месяцев назад

yeah, obvious US+Sweden coop game

@cseijifja 10 месяцев назад

@@Handygamer the mediterranean wasn't shit since the african coast hugging/ atlantic trade started, it was even easier for nations like spain and their manila galeons.

@molybdaen11 10 месяцев назад

I had to fight the king of norway for Land in middle africa once in crusader kings 3.

@adrianmunoz7646 9 месяцев назад

@@molybdaen11😂😂😂

@ArkadiBolschek 10 месяцев назад

Another thing that I think should have been mentioned: the various Barbary states, though largely independent, were technically vassals of the Ottoman Empire, which meant that if you tried to "deal with them" effectively, the Ottomans could declare war on you. This was a big deterrent for Europeans; not so much for the US, who were a whole ocean away and thus relatively safe from retaliation. The European nations only started invading/suppressing the Barbary states once Ottoman power started to wane.

@beatballmix4835 2 месяца назад

Not really, They pretty much were independent, Far from being vassals, They just kept the name of the ottoman due to Islamic Caliph respect Add to that Ottomans did nothing when France invaded Algiers.

@ThePurplePassage 2 месяца назад

@@beatballmix4835 would the fact that the Ottomans did nothing potentially be caused also by the fact that Ottoman power was beginning to wane then, according to the original post?

@moha_le_dz Месяц назад

@@ThePurplePassageim from algeria [ barbary coast ] and the otmans They were just our allies

@alpharius4819 Месяц назад

So basically a Muslim coalition of pirate states with official backing from a world power enacted sanctioned piracy against non Muslim nations for the crimes of being non Muslim? Very cringe. Very stupid.

@cenktuneygok8986 Месяц назад

@@beatballmix4835North Africa was officially Turkish territory and for a time was governed by people appointed from Turkey. Later on the empire left it to the locals but they were still considered part of the empire.

@espanadorada7962 10 месяцев назад

I think it’s worth pointing out that the short intro to their crimes (they raided ships, stole cargo, sold crews into “bondage”) is a vast understatement. This piracy had been going on for centuries and was really centered around slavery. Initially it focused on enslaving people taken from their homes near the coasts and did over time move towards enslaving ship’s crews, though coastal raids never stopped. Though I realize it’s not really the focus of the video, the centuries of horrible crimes inflicted on people by these pirates really did feel almost purposefully minimized here which I found strange.

@sahararaptor7600 10 месяцев назад

The video is a few minutes long and focuses on American history, it doesn't have time to explore centuries of conflict.

@ShanghaiRooster 9 месяцев назад

@@sahararaptor7600 The problem in so doing is it grossly distorts real history in favour of making Americans feel better about themselves. It claims the Europeans did squat, which is untrue. Britain enforced treaties upon the pirates from 1675 on, which endured until the end of the Barbary states in the 19th century (until the revolution American shipping was protected under those treaties). Other major powers in Europe went to war with the pirates too. The problem was the lesser powers in the Mediterranean weren't strong enough to enforce their will, and so the raids continued. The two wars involving America did not solve the problem. The Dey of Algeria repudiated the treaty signed with Decatur in 1815, and the American commissioner William Shaler had to flee onboard the Anglo-Dutch fleet which bombarded Algiers in 1816, and truly brought matters to an end. Even then raiding continued on a small scale, and as the video says, only ended when France invaded Algeria in 1830.

@jakesadler7266 6 месяцев назад

The use of bondage instead of slavery is straight up disingenuous ngl. And leave it to the Americans to edit history to fulfil their saviour complex

@TheWeedlover2 6 месяцев назад

@jakesadler7266 the creator of the video is English and lives in England

@dougearnest7590 6 месяцев назад

The last thing I would accuse this channel of doing is distorting history "in favour of making Americans feel better about themselves." Is this your first video, or are you too invested in the anti-America mentality to to let "real history" taint your opinions? @@ShanghaiRooster

@Unhinged29 10 месяцев назад

One thing you didn't mention is that the Barbery pirates also had a habit of raiding the shores of any nation that didn't pay up. their shallow draft boats where perfect for costal raiding... not so good for going trans Atlantic meaning that they could never launch reprisal raids on the U.S. who could show up, shoot up the coasts and then go home without fear of being followed.

@FiredAndIced 10 месяцев назад

American gunboats being chad

@ddddddddddd5354 10 месяцев назад

But didn't they raid as far as Iceland ?

@zacharysilver911 10 месяцев назад

@@ddddddddddd5354Still not trans Atlantic You can get to Iceland via the North Sea which is shallow water. Sure, you could hug Greenland and Canada’s coasts to get to the US with shallow water boats, but that’s a bit ridiculously far. Meanwhile the US can shoot straight to the Med with deep water warships.

@manyinterests1961 10 месяцев назад

And that is why many small towns and villages on northern mediteranean coast are quite a distance from the shore

@adisca2k 10 месяцев назад

@@ddddddddddd5354 Yeah they could have raided the usa, but would it have really been worth it? I am not really sure about this, but wouldn't the usa have most of their navy back home while the colonial nations had theirs spread around the world? Raiding is all about avoiding resistance.

@maskthem0ney295 10 месяцев назад

I like how interconnected history is: the US fighting a small war in the early 19th century winds up somehow snowballing into France having to bring back de Gaulle because of a losing war in the mid 20th century. Never would have even guessed that.

@SirDriperHat 10 месяцев назад

That's the essence 👌

@Sam-pv1hz 10 месяцев назад

Mind explaining please? I don't wanna do extensive research, and you seem to know the topic.

@Eureka092 10 месяцев назад

My favourite is that you can connect the fall of Constantinople and the rise of ottoman power to the creation of anime

@leonhardjust5134 10 месяцев назад

@@Eureka092how bro ? I mean I know the Constantinople anime intro 😅 but I don’t get the connex

@houseplant1016 10 месяцев назад

@@Sam-pv1hz The youtuber already explained on how it lead to North Africa being colonized so I'll skip the part...Okay so after WW2 Algeria wanted independence.The French nationalistic army didn't want that so they threatened with a coup if Charles De Gaule (leader during WW2) wouldn't be president. They thought that he could solve this situation since he also "helped win WW2. It eventually failed Algeria fought hard and won its independence.

@WolfA4 10 месяцев назад

The United States Marine Corps Hymn's first verse mentions the Barbary war "from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli..." and the Marine Officer sword was adopted from the actions taken during the Marines' landing in Tripoli.

@savioblanc 10 месяцев назад

Marine Corps basically have the Mamluk sword

@dab0331 9 месяцев назад

The first ever Special Operations, 150 years before the Navy SEALS and Green Berets

@DieFlabbergast 9 месяцев назад

I'm British and I've known that for most of my life. Apparently, from some of the comments here, many Americans don't know it. There sure are a lot of uneducated Americans around.

@dab0331 9 месяцев назад

@@DieFlabbergast please. Brits don't even know the basics of the American Revolution from public school.

@Bill.Cipher.101 6 месяцев назад

@@dab0331 Facts

@MDR-hn2yz 10 месяцев назад

Fun fact-the opening line of the US Marines hymn states: “ From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli. We fight our countries battles, on the land, on air and sea.” The shores of Tripoli paying respect to the fight against the Barbary Coast pirates by the US Marines. Semper Fi🇺🇸

@jeffspaulding9834 3 дня назад

I always wondered about the "halls of Montezuma" bit. My history isn't the best, but I don't remember the U.S. Marines marching with Cortez.

@MDR-hn2yz 3 дня назад

@@jeffspaulding9834 It refers to the Battle of Chapultepec in 1847, during the Mexican-American War. The Marines stormed Chapultepec Castle and held it, suffering high casualties.

@jeffspaulding9834 2 дня назад

@@MDR-hn2yz Ah, that makes sense then. Thanks for the info!

@ein-veh2365 10 месяцев назад

I'd always wondered why the US Marines ended up so far from home so early in the country's history.

@remhawk73 10 месяцев назад

You were wondering when you should have been MOTIVATED to go fight Americas battles on the land, in the air, and on the sea.

@ChemEDan 10 месяцев назад

@@remhawk73 😅😅

@TheGM-20XX 10 месяцев назад

Wait until you find out about their adventure with a time machine. how else do you think they got to go to the halls of Montezuma?

@vistagreat9994 10 месяцев назад

@@remhawk73 Absolutely true, and ultra-based, and ultimately, just good.

@motba6228 10 месяцев назад

@@TheGM-20XXAnd who could forget the shores of Tripoli?

@generalsmite7167 10 месяцев назад

Fun fact, the US only had a few ships at the time of the first war manly because it was a big issue as many saw a navy as imperialistic. They actually were lent gun boats from Naples to help in the fighting. After the war of 1812 the Navy became a point of national pride and they started building battleships. So when they went back to North Africa they had a lot more firepower

@andrefasching1332 10 месяцев назад

others are doing it = imperialism we are doing it = national pride Americans truly are flexible thinkers

@mendelkorf639 10 месяцев назад

@andrefasching1332 stopping pirates from attacking citizens is imperialism? 😂

@generalsmite7167 10 месяцев назад

@@mendelkorf639 that’s what the democratic republicans thought. They believed that the USA did not need a fleet but militia gun boats to defend the coast at times of war. They were much want to abandon American merchants. The federalists very much wanted a navy. The navy was commissioned under Washington, when the Barbary states first started trouble, constructed under adams, both heavily used and downsized by Jefferson and then the war of 1812 happened

@generalsmite7167 10 месяцев назад

@@andrefasching1332 it was seen as imperialism by the democratic republicans but the federalists were able to construct a small fleet of frigates. After the success of the small navy against the British in 1812 public opinion changed. It also had to do with the idea of the federal government using the military to suppress the states and the people. But yes the whole creation of the navy was this ridiculous thing

@finngregory3599 10 месяцев назад

@@generalsmite7167 ah yes, the small skirmish delusional American's turned into a mythology

@relix7373 4 месяца назад

"Selling them into bondage" is a pretty polite way to put it. The rich tradition of slavery is alive and well across the Arab world today too.

@mjjoe76 8 дней назад

Let’s not pretend it doesn’t happen in Western countries. We just like to call it “trafficking”. Similar to the Antebellum South calling human property “servants”.

@metazoxan2 6 дней назад

"Selling into bondage" is litterally Slavery. if someone doesn't know what it means to be sold into bondage then that's their fault.

@AlexWest10 10 месяцев назад

There is a famous phrase in Spanish related to the Barbary pirates: "No hay moros en la costa," which translates to "There are no Moors on the coast." Essentially, it is used to indicate that a place is safe, as in the past, many Spaniards were assaulted and abducted by these pirates.

@karlscher5170 Месяц назад

Enslaved

@ERTipsAndTricks 19 дней назад

“The coast is clear” comes from this saying.

@itcalledfootball600 7 дней назад

Aren’t Spaniards just Christian moors?

@Asahamana 10 месяцев назад

Even more fun fact! That Swedish ship was send back to Sweden to help fight in the Russo-Swedish war of 1808-1809. The ship was able to free the island of Gotland from Russians. The Russians fled once they noticed the Swedish we're coming. The Swedes only lost a man because he fell from the mast. I just find it cute how the Sweden was trying to stop the Barbary Pirates with one ship.

@Steyr32 10 месяцев назад

"Cute" 💀 Sweden's national pride is in shambles with that one

@kompatybilijny9348 10 месяцев назад

I mean, look at the number of ships during the Opium wars - China had a HUGE numbers advantage, yet basically the entire fleet was sunk without issue. If that Swedish ship was high-tech at the time, then it could very much curbstomp fleets of older ships.

@mitjed 10 месяцев назад

Sweden sent 3 frigate ships, not just one.

@claymore484 10 месяцев назад

I want to jokingly believe the Viking spirit was in the Swedes when they went sailing to the Mediterranean

@lordcommander3224 10 месяцев назад

@@claymore484Sweden wasn’t as wealthy at this time due to the constant war and failed empire building the previous 150 years. However, their ships were extremely cutting edge and their crews well trained.

@killer3000ad 10 месяцев назад

The Barbary coast pirates even raided as far as the British isles. There are tales of them scooping up entire coastal villages. Younger females were sold into harems and sexual slavery while males were sold as slave labour or galley slaves. It's estimated that the Barbary coast pirates enslaved up to 1.2 million Europeans over the course of their existence, with most never living to see home again.

@Steyr32 10 месяцев назад

That doesn't compare to the 15 million Africans enslaved by the Europeans and sent to America, millions dying in the ocean.

@ScottyShaw 10 месяцев назад

When I was in Iceland, they told me about the Ottomans raiding Iceland 😱

@pontusborg7642 10 месяцев назад

We should demand Morocco, Algiers, Libya and Turkiye to pay reperations....wait a minute.

@pyropulseIXXI 10 месяцев назад

They never mention this because they hate white people; it is that simple

@v1e1r1g1e1 10 месяцев назад

And let's not forget how many slaves the Ottomans took from central Europe during the same period, too. Facts that will never be taught in schools. No. It doesn't matter when White people are enslaved. White people are racists. Only White people can be racists.

@corgrapes 9 месяцев назад

Minor details like "James 'he's mad, son' Maddison" at 2:12 are one of the best things in these videos.

@GVSolo 10 месяцев назад

One thing not mentioned is that not only that the Americans liberated US prisoners captured by the Barbary pirates but in the process liberated British prisoners as well.

@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2 9 месяцев назад

Not sure there would have been many British prisoners as once the Royal Navy started to build up in size mid 1700's the Barbary Pirates generally looked at the number of warships based at Gibraltar, and agreed that they would leave all British flagged ships alone provided the Royal Navy would refrain from using their cannon to extend the Mediterranean Sea southwards. I believe that after a regime change in one of the North African pirate centres letters were sent to the various countries with a Mediterranean coastline saying that previous tributes were void and that they should pay again. The British Admiral at Gibraltar however got a letter wishing King George good heath and saying that the new ruler was more than happy to carry on with the previous arrangement of leaving each other alone. The problem for the USA started when after they refused to pay their share of the expense of a war started by an incompetent Colonial militia officer by the name of G. Washington, who fired on French troops during peacetime, and then rebelled on the spurious basis that they were being taxed without representation. (The average colonial Englishman paying about 1/10 of the tax paid by those living on the home islands, despite being in general better off.) But I suppose limited representation (local assemblies) for limited taxation is not that good a battle cry. I also note that a lot of those signing the Declaration of Independence were slave owners, and that it was the British Empire that was the main force behind the end of large scale slavery. Had they seen the way the wind was blowing in Britain and decided to get out before they were told no more slavery? After the unpleasantness of 1776 etc. I believe a certain Benjamin Franklin approached a British diplomat and asked if the threat of Royal Navy displeasure could be extended to cover American merchant ships in the Mediterranean area, the reply was why would we want to do that?

@GreoGreo 8 месяцев назад

@@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2 The British Empire also had the biggest role of making slave trades huge.

@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2 8 месяцев назад

@@GreoGreo No we were not the largest slave traders, I think that the Portuguese shipped almost twice as many people as us. The Arab slave trade on the East coast of Africa was also even larger than the Portuguese but spread out over a longer period of time.

@GreoGreo 8 месяцев назад

@@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2 Wrong.

@arakami8547 6 месяцев назад

@GreoGreo "Wrong".

@JaxYTB 10 месяцев назад

I've always found this conflict so funny thinking that Jefferson said "you know what? Let's go blow up the Barbary ports because nobody else will"

@SuperCatacata 10 месяцев назад

Somebody gotta do it

@brandonlyon730 10 месяцев назад

Well Jefferson was also about following the constitution strictly, but then also went around Congress’s back to conduct the Louisiana purchase.

@DISTurbedwaffle918 10 месяцев назад

@@brandonlyon730 It was a no brainer deal. Buying Louisiana was a massive dub and Congress would have 100% fumbled the bag.

@themanhimself1229 10 месяцев назад

@@brandonlyon730 Congress doesn't deal with treaties, the Senate does, and he follows the constitution exactly in passing said treaty. It was all constitutionally legal.

@gabrieljean-batiste2006 10 месяцев назад

@@brandonlyon730 LA Purchase was all above board. Congress had agreed to pay up to $10M for just New Orleans, so Jefferson then sent Monroe & Livingston to negotiate with Napoleon. But because Napoleon needed money for war, France wasn't earning a great deal from sugar in the territory, Napoleon foresaw that if a sale didn't happen then the British or Americans would invade, and the Haitian slave revolt had just occurred... Napoleon simply wanted to be done with it and focus on his European wars. So, when Monroe & Livingston arrived, Napoleon sprang it on them that the deal was for the entire territory for $15M. They just couldn't catch a ship back to the US to ask Congress and Jefferson for further authorization, so they signed the deal believing that Congress and Jefferson would okay it after the fact. Jefferson didn't do anything untoward. Not sure where you got that info.

@Nikkidafox 10 месяцев назад

I had heard about the Barbary Wars before, but never quite knew why no other state had just stopped them. I never considered that it was for a simple reason: Britain wanted them to live.

@ToastieBRRRN 10 месяцев назад

It's just that the UK payed the most. Essentially getting a monopoly of safe shipping in the Mediterranean. Or from a cynical perspective: perfidiously funding privateers to annoy Spain and France.

@adamlakeman7240 10 месяцев назад

@@ToastieBRRRN No mate, it's all an evil British conspiracy pay no attention to Britain getting fed up with them and bombarding Algiers everything ever is Britain's fault.

@DestructivelyPhased 10 месяцев назад

@@ToastieBRRRNit’s amazing how much of British history is “France can’t have nice things. Maybe also Spain. And *insert current form of Germany*”.

@kingt0295 10 месяцев назад

@@DestructivelyPhased and they were right to knee cap all of them

@brandonlyon730 10 месяцев назад

@@DestructivelyPhasedWell in fairness France pretty much did the same with the likes of the Prussia, even though that only worked half the time.

@Labyrinth6000 5 месяцев назад

It perplexed me that they NEVER teach about this war in schools now unlike in the 50s when they used to!

@_-_CrimsoN_-_ 5 месяцев назад

There is SO MUCH they don't touch on. I remember learning about the War of 1812 only be reading my history book in elementary school, but I never had a lesson on it. Spanish American War I only learned about through a documentary!!! We didn't even touch on World War One or World War Two in school!!! But I can give you a detailed account of the Revoluntionary War because we touched on that at least a dozen times.....

@np81la 10 месяцев назад

The Portuguese navy provided Convoy escort in the first Year after USA independence, and we also kept the moors trapped in the Mediterranean, but in 1793 we made a treaty with the pirates of algiere and the americans were left to fend for themselves

@mikeg2306 10 месяцев назад

The famous US raid against the Barbary Pirates in 1803 was to recapture or burn an American ship that had been seized. It’s immortalized in the Marine Corp Hymn: “to the shores of Tripoli.”

@silenthunteruk 10 месяцев назад

Marines began as infantry that operates on ships.

@berengerchristy6256 10 месяцев назад

@@silenthunteruk ...yes?

@Sectarian. 10 месяцев назад

keep romanticising the US army as some sort of justice bringers when this same army was confiscating native lands and deporting them into what is essentially an early form of concentration camps

@Justin-pe9cl 9 месяцев назад

@@silenthunterukAnd?

@D.W.C935 2 месяца назад

@silenthunteruk So The USMC started from fighting Barbary Pirates?

@thomasguiral7121 10 месяцев назад

I appreciate seeing this topic being covered, however as a french, it sort of upsets me to see the role of the Barbary pirates being downplayed as just ''harassing ships''. They didn't do just that. They would also raid the coasts for slaves who would then be sold into slavery in Africa, and it lasted, as in the video, late into History. I have no idea why this wouldn't get brought up, these weren't just petty pirates.

@The_Lunch_Man 10 месяцев назад

It was mentioned that they not only raided cargo, but also took slaves

@boobah5643 10 месяцев назад

Pirates raiding coastal settlements for slaves (among other expensive goods) is par for the course. That's just what pirates _do._ The Caribbean had some pirate crews who were exceptions (in part because the pirates there were far more often outlaws, and it's hard to have slaves without a state to enforce that slavery.)

@williampalmer8052 10 месяцев назад

Your understandable reaction might be more the result of all the great public relations work pirates have received over the years, especially recently. Piracy was always a heinous avocation, full of violence and cruelty. So unless each vile deed is spelled out, people today might assume that pirates weren't all bad, or that they were some kind of "Robin Hood" figures. There was a reason their crimes were punished with extreme measures, and their bodies often displayed as warning to others. Piracy was never petty, nor were they ever some kind of anti-hero. Interesting, certain north European pirates and raiders, i.e. Vikings, also enjoy this romanticized view, though they too were the lowest form of violent scum.

@Lapantouflemagic0 10 месяцев назад

@@The_Lunch_Man yeah but it sound like they only took as slave the crew of ships, which is far FAR from reality. entire coastlines, entire islands were emptied of their population, reducted to slavery by these fuckers. they had it comming.

@dougfowler1368 10 месяцев назад

@@williampalmer8052indeed, Pittsburgh's baseball team is named the Pirates and even a century ago the naming made pirscy seem like it's just any normal graft. (They took a player from another league, and a newspaper article in the opposing team's city described the act as piratical.) And anyone who's ever eaten at a pirate themed restaurant, with names like Long John Silver, would figure they were just Sailors who were a little more aggressive, maybe with the attitude toward rules that John McGraw had toward umpires, hey why not continue the baseball theme :-)

@FKHC2005 10 месяцев назад

@1:19 man those US Navy ship were really booking it.

@atlanticstate9602 10 месяцев назад

Morocco wasn't one of the Barbary* pirate states, unlike Algeria,Tunisia and Tripolitana that were all part of the Ottoman empire, Morocco was an independent empire and had great relations with both the US and Great Britain, sure Morocco benefited and used some pirates for political reasons (the pirates in Morocco were mainly the Muslims and Jews that were expelled from Spain and Portugal and they seeked revenge ) but the piracy stopped once the Moroccan Sultan signed friendship Treaties with the US, Britain, France, the Netherlands and other European States

@daviroza4700 10 месяцев назад

Fake video Morocco was founded by France in 1956 they don’t even have a flag they use the red banner and Jewish star free Western Sahara 🇪🇭

@harveya1a952 10 месяцев назад

It’s because the US had James Bisonette with them

@g-ants7547 10 месяцев назад

Real

@ItsUtopia_ 10 месяцев назад

all hail james bisonette

@loganicfilms1388 10 месяцев назад

They raided one of his ships, so he helped the Americans gain independance so they could take out the pirates for him.

@spritemon98 10 месяцев назад

Mighty boogity woogity is the protector

@animehero343 10 месяцев назад

Is someone writing the history of James Bisonette?

@maybegamer24 10 месяцев назад

as a former Barbary Pirate i can confirm that James Bissonette was a very skilled pirate

@jamesbissonette8002 10 месяцев назад

Meh, not really

@Akrafena 10 месяцев назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 omg its James Bissonette

@ScottyShaw 10 месяцев назад

He is perhaps the best pirate I've ever heard of!

@hashira9223 10 месяцев назад

Nah, the best pirate is Jan Janszoon (Reis Murad the Younger) his story is wild af 💀 I recommend reading about his life

@wheeliewheelie1 10 месяцев назад

So was Kelly Moneymaker.😂

@gromhellscream4487 10 месяцев назад

I can't express how happy I get to see each of your new videos. Love from Iran. Also, would you ever consider making a video about Iranian history? You've only made one so far.

@edsr164 10 месяцев назад

This reminds me of a poem from Kipling called Danegeld. Specially this part: “We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!"

@staffan- 10 месяцев назад

Wow, as a Swede I had no idea that Sweden took part in the fight against the Barbary pirates. And I usually recognize everything on this channel that involves Sweden. Neat!

@brettk9316 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Sweden that America didn't have to do it all by itself!

@gravygraves5112 10 месяцев назад

If I ever visit I'll get someone a pint in honor of the occasion

@gtadeniz803 5 месяцев назад

We were also one of the first nations to recognise the independence of the US.

@oldmanwaterfall 10 месяцев назад

It's also worth noting the US and specifically Morocco were buds, the longest and still upheld treaty in US history is a treaty of friendship with Morocco.

@clintthrustmaster 10 месяцев назад

Anglo-Portugese alliance looks over and laughs at this brief friendship you mention.

@MrUnknownThinker 10 месяцев назад

@@clintthrustmasterhe is talking about us history

@thetayz72 10 месяцев назад

@@MrUnknownThinker one uppers be like: 🤓

@berengerchristy6256 10 месяцев назад

@@thetayz72 indeed. that there reading comprehension

@stanleyyelnats9310 10 месяцев назад

@@clintthrustmaster Ok?

@dennisud 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for being clear and concise while keeping it short and sweet! 👍🏼

@klintwehrell4483 10 месяцев назад

Entertaining and informative as always thank you so much.❤😊 I just wish you would have also mentioned their enslaving of Europeans which is a horrible tragedy (no matter to whom it happens) and should not be overlooked or forgotten 😢

@jessejojojohnson 9 месяцев назад

He did. Subtly.

@dantehubinette7050 10 месяцев назад

As a big eu4 player the destruction of these pirates really warms my heart

@thedrugdealerinthehomedepot 10 месяцев назад

Honestly I have never seen a comment I agree with more

@dylanroemmele906 10 месяцев назад

Yeah Im surprised the devs expanded the lore beyond the end date. Really thoughtful of PDX to do so, perhaps we have given them too much flak for lack of flavor.

@hyperboreanmakima Месяц назад

damn right

@bizmen81 10 месяцев назад

As an American, this was surprising to learn. No idea we did battle outside the US/Americas long before 1896!

@azmanabdula 10 месяцев назад

You folks need to learn your republican roots The left have destroyed your history *Notice they want to remove all your statues*

@mauricefrost8900 10 месяцев назад

Check out the first two lines of the US marines march It will all fit together then

@user-xr2jt7ss4o 10 месяцев назад

It's funny, because you lost the first Barbary war

@FormerPessitheRobberfan 10 месяцев назад

@@user-xr2jt7ss4o so?

@manyinterests1961 10 месяцев назад

@@mauricefrost8900 I am European and know that shores of Tripoli are not mentioned as a tourist attraction. Americans amaze me

@howesfull8 6 месяцев назад

More fun facts: "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli..." Words that start the Marine Corps Hymn. Also, Marines still wear the "Mameluke Sword" signifying this first defeat of the pirates in Libya. This cut and pasted from Wikipedia: Marine Corps history states that a sword of this type was presented to Marine First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon by the Ottoman Empire viceroy, Prince Hamet, on December 8, 1805, during the First Barbary War, in Libya, as a gesture of respect and praise for the Marines' actions at the Battle of Derna (1805).[4] Upon his return to the United States, the state of Virginia presented him with a silver-hilted sword featuring an eagle head hilt and a curved blade modeled after the original Mameluke sword given to him by Hamet. Its blade is inscribed with his name and a commemoration of the Battle of Tripoli Harbor.[5]

@VoltBolt1984 6 месяцев назад

I really hope we get a 10 minute video on the Barbary states. It feels like one of those topics that isn’t fully discussed. Here in the US, we barely cover it anymore and this is a subject that has fascinated me for sometime. It’s not talked about enough in the public school system these days and I think it should be talked about more as to how it shaped isolationism and Monroe doctrine in the US.

@houcinanane8043 10 месяцев назад

Great video as always but there's one mistake 0:33 this isn't Algiers this is Tripoli

@andrewklang809 10 месяцев назад

US-grade geography skills in action.

@markmaki4460 10 месяцев назад

Well he got it right later, so at least it was probably just bad editing.

@thelibertyking6735 10 месяцев назад

@@markmaki4460 More likely. Confused when he mentioned Algiers but highlighted Tripoli.

@MikaelKKarlsson 10 месяцев назад

Rectified with bombing at a later date.

@jhutchyboy1 10 месяцев назад

@@andrewklang809 History Matters is quite clearly British.

@JarrodFrates 10 месяцев назад

I love the race car engines fitted to the first American fleet. It shows how advanced the US Navy was even at that time.

@peterg76yt 10 месяцев назад

That's the high-calibre historical accuracy we've come to expect from History Matters. (Oversimplified is great for that sort of detail too.)

@101jir 10 месяцев назад

Early US was in a similar situation to Japan after the Washington Naval Treaty in that if you can't beat your main rivals in quantity of battleships (/equivalent top rank), you try to obsolete what they already have. The US did this through the construction of ships such as the USS Constitution (which was a far more practical design for the US to implement than the British for a number of reasons) and Japan by building super battleships and capitalizing on air power as much as possible.

@ScottyShaw 10 месяцев назад

How do you turn this on?

@caseclosed9342 10 месяцев назад

James Bisonette was key in getting race car engines for the American ships because he knew they’d help the US win the war

@MyFiddlePlayer 10 месяцев назад

Congress initially authorized building only 6 frigates to constitute the entire Navy. So they built the largest, most technologically advanced frigates on the planet at the time, capable of defeating most other countries' ships of the line.

@wingus79 10 месяцев назад

This is the best one in a long time 👍🏼 and they are all great

@ggpro7979 10 месяцев назад

Great video! I hadn’t heard of this before.

@bananaonfire7834 10 месяцев назад

It's funny how Morocco was technically the first nation to recognize the US, yet it's first foreign war was technically fought on Moroccan land.

@javiersoria3913 10 месяцев назад

Morocco recognized the US so early so they could raid US-ships without technically raiding British vessels.

@MoroccoCountryballs 10 месяцев назад

Not on Moroccan land, It was on Lybia, Morocco declared wae on US and blowed their ships forcing them to peace out with Lybia

@TheOriginalJphyper 10 месяцев назад

The US never fought Morocco. Before fighting the Barbary Wars, America did the smart thing and tried diplomacy first, but Morocco was the only Barbary state to agree to a diplomatic solution.

@ibracadabra882 10 месяцев назад

The US never fought against Morocco, it was only against Algiers ans Tripoli. In fact, Morocco and the US have always been in good terms.

@ScottyShaw 10 месяцев назад

@@ibracadabra882 This is why Americans and Moroccans are good friends to this day

@gamingpotato1005 10 месяцев назад

Amazing video as always, really fascinating to learn about more obscure topics in history like these. One small nitpick though, at around 0:31 when you say Algiers, you highlight Tripolitania instead.

@NickCorruption 10 месяцев назад

Script writing error. They do the voice overs separately from the animation so the dialogue occasionally doesn't align well since they don't always watch the footage when recording the voice.

@vercot7000 10 месяцев назад

@@DaBurger1411 jesus christ it's one tiny error lol. Chill

@mertm.995 7 месяцев назад

@@vercot7000pretty major error tbh

@MohabWali08 7 месяцев назад

yes and for a moment in this video i was algerian

@frenstcht 10 месяцев назад

Hey! I _did_ enjoy that video. Thanks!

@bwhog 10 месяцев назад

There were a number of different Barbary treaties. it is worth reading them. I love these videos! Always entertaining!

@rl9217 10 месяцев назад

2:21 Barbary States after losing to the United Sates: Well I know it’s been a rough time for us and losing to such a young country is embarrassing but I think we can still save thi- The European powers: (stop fighting each other and slowly turn to the Barbary States) The Barbary States: …

@vortega472 10 месяцев назад

I don't know if I've said this before - but for me in the videos is the part where you have one of your characters floating through a field of flowers, that just gives me joy and I look forward to it every time.

@robertmoffett3486 10 месяцев назад

I like them, but the ones fleeing in flames are better

@vortega472 10 месяцев назад

@@robertmoffett3486 I don't know - it's one part the animated figure as a historic figure, the way they bounce, and the flower field. That is just the bestest.

@tabletgenesis3439 10 месяцев назад

I can imagine a 2050s video of "Why did the Wagner Group stop at Moscow?"

@kenwalker687 Месяц назад

Was there a Wagner Group on the Barbary Coast? This appears to have left the thread. Strange?

@sumdude4281 10 месяцев назад

I have ALWAYS wondered this thank you!

@Zo._ 10 месяцев назад

00:34 Algiers is modern day Algeria situated in the middle between tunisia and morroco the one highlighted is Tripoli or modern day Lybia I think it’s a minor mistake by the creator

@markmaki4460 10 месяцев назад

Yes, just bad editing, as he got it right later in the video.

@matthewgillies7509 10 месяцев назад

He was highlighting the Maghreb region, and maybe intended to mention that term before accidentally defaulting to Algeria. Also, the US Marines' song mentions the shores of Tripoli, even though Algers was the principle offender during that period, which further adds to the confusion.

@semipenguin 10 месяцев назад

They sing about it in The Marines’ Hymn. From the Halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli; We fight our country's battles In the air, on land, and sea.

@user-xx7um5bh5w 10 месяцев назад

That's right. I remember those words from when I was a little kid, when I had now idea of the meaning of Montezuma or Tripoli. (I guess "Montezuma" was a reference to the Mexican-American war?)

@semipenguin 10 месяцев назад

@@user-xx7um5bh5w That is correct

@conservativedemocracyenjoyer 10 месяцев назад

@@samwallace6509How exactly did we lose in Iraq?

@calmbbaer 10 месяцев назад

Updated by DJ Khalid in "All I Do Is Win."

@ScottyShaw 10 месяцев назад

@@calmbbaer New national anthem? 🤣🤣🤣

@hillbilly4895 10 месяцев назад

This is as an effective way to teach history as any. HM channel deserves every sub it has and more.

@nhuffy9415 10 месяцев назад

Love your content. Always wondered why some people are mentioned twice at the end. Thought I was losing my marbles for the longest time 😂

@jeremyglass4283 10 месяцев назад

I imagine Thomas Jefferson being told by the king of England about the pirates issue and internally fuming over why no one has done anything about them and responding with the line that every man hears from his wife when she wants something done that no one else cares about: “Fine, I’ll do it myself!”

@Dave_Sisson 10 месяцев назад

Except British kings lost their last vestiges of power in 1689, so in the early 1800s their prime minister made the decisions.

@clouds-rb9xt 10 месяцев назад

@@Dave_Sisson🤓

@kv4648 10 месяцев назад

@@clouds-rb9xt"🤓"🤡

@ShaunCheah 10 месяцев назад

@@clouds-rb9xtFace it, mate: on this channel, we're all 🤓

@ScottyShaw 10 месяцев назад

@@ShaunCheah This is a fun channel 🤓🥳

@SnowLeopard-lt1vf 10 месяцев назад

Fun fact: during the Barbary wars, the US marines went to the East Mediterranean to recruit roughly 800 greek and Turkish mercenaries to fight the Barbary pirates. It’s ironic because the turks were the ones who for centuries sponsored the barbary pirates (meanwhile almost none of the Barbary pirates were actually turks, but were from the balkans, predominantly greeks and Albanians and later North African Arabs).

@savioblanc 10 месяцев назад

And some European converts to Islam as well

@parbamatma7704 10 месяцев назад

@@savioblanc True Raïs Mohamme El-Roussy (The Russian) Raïs Murad (Peter lyle a defected Scottish) Raïs Al-Uljy* (a dutch) * = Ulj means a non arab person all served in Tripoli , Only the latter was from the 1600s.

@Sectarian. 10 месяцев назад

This same army was confiscating native lands and deporting them into what is essentially an early form of concentration camps.

@nvelsen1975 10 месяцев назад

A lot of people who were forced out of their normal lives ended up going "Well, I guess I can always be a pirate". Many Jews fleeing from the constant Holocaust attempts in Spain, ended up in the Barbary States, realising becoming a pirate would be an excellent way to get revenge against Spain.

@newtonia-uo4889 10 месяцев назад

Many jews that fled spain also got lynched in north africa like in fez. Its hard to love a jew during a time wherein usury was outlawed by most states

@DaWoWzer 10 месяцев назад

always love learning about these problems

@benperrier 10 месяцев назад

I really enjoy the list of Patrons, esp. Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard

@mr.tobacco1708 10 месяцев назад

Actually U.S didn't made deal with the Barbary Pirates but with their overlord AKA the Ottomans, that agreement is the ONLY agreement that U.S signed in foreign language and Ottoman Empire is the only nation in history U.S actually paid tribute (to protect their ships.) But when Barbary Pirates continued to attack the American ships as you said, Ottomans pretty much stand aside and let Americans do anything they want to them.

@CMitchell808 10 месяцев назад

While I do believe that the U.S. would entreat with the Ottomans, I find the idea that the Sublime Porte was an overlord of the Barbary States by the early 19th century laughable. Weren’t they dealing with Egypt at the time?

@alpercanberkbalc4652 10 месяцев назад

@@CMitchell808yeah, no. After napoleon had his adventure, a bit of time passed until the egyptian issues.

@sksjsjsbs1489 10 месяцев назад

Actually, US didn’t pay a tribute to the ottoman empire and they deal with them later after the barbary wars. US were dealing and paying tribute with the governor of the barbary pirates independently from the empire even though they were officially ottoman provinces

@Jawmax 10 месяцев назад

And it was from this that part of the US Marine Corp got the first line of its song. "...to the shores of Tripoli." Seven marines were in charge of that second campaign. The beginning of a fine tradition of US marines kicking ass.

@matthewbrotman2907 10 месяцев назад

This, of course, refers to the Tripoli in present-day Libya, not the one in Lebanon. We don’t talk about Lebanon.

@FormerPessitheRobberfan 10 месяцев назад

@@matthewbrotman2907 No one thinks of the Tripoli in Lebanon when talking about Tripoli. Most people probably don't even know there's another Tripoli.

@kenwalker687 Месяц назад

Do not forget the auxileries that were with the Marines.

@muhammadhabibieamiro3639 10 месяцев назад

Another amazing video

@Squirrelmind66 9 месяцев назад

I now understand that line in the song, “from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli…”

@TILR 10 месяцев назад

You should do a video on the time the US saved a North Korean ship from Pirates, one of the only times North Korea actually thanked the US. The enemy of my enemy is my friend :)

@gimmethegepgun 10 месяцев назад

Like half of the international laws of the seas can basically be summed up as "fuck pirates"

@quakethedoombringer 10 месяцев назад

@@gimmethegepgunnations may hate each other but trading is still happening especially when the world is more integrated than ever economically because all sides will loose if ships stop sailing. Pirates having a bad habit of ransacking goods from every cargo ship they can find is a really quick way to unite everyone against them

@Bisexual_power 10 месяцев назад

Every nation: I hate you Pirates: good morning Every nation: Time for your death

@nvelsen1975 10 месяцев назад

@@Bisexual_power Indonesia is quite okay and quite accomodating to piracy of all kinds. Not that preying on shipping between China and anything west of Thailand is going all that well, but Indonesia does f*ckall against it. The PLAN has had to sail well into disputed territory near Indonesia to go deal with pirates operating out of there, and if it wasn't for Singapore there'd be a pretty serious problem.

@mojewjewjew4420 10 месяцев назад

Only a fool believes that the enemy of my enemy,is my friend.

@timesnewlogan2032 10 месяцев назад

Two details: 1. The Barbary pirates prompted the construction of the ship USS Constitution and her sisters, which would serve with distinction (besides one) in the War of 1812. 2. The Barbary Wars are referenced in the second line of the Marines’ Hymn: “To the shores of Tripoli”.

@scythal 10 месяцев назад

3. The USS Constitution is the world's oldest still-floating ship! She can be found at the former Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston.

@timesnewlogan2032 10 месяцев назад

@@scythal Yep! Went there a few years back. Beautiful ship.

@thiccpasta8589 10 месяцев назад

Definitely a huge W for the USA and it's early prestige.

@typograf62 10 месяцев назад

Denmark-Norway had a fight with Algier around 1770, the issue being an increase in protection money. It was a complete failure and cost a lot of "gifts" to Algier to end it. And paying the no-pirate fee. We never learn. The Faroe Islands also fell victims to Algierean pirates. Though far way they were hardly protected (a small fortress was erected in Torshavn). So who knows - I might have an ancestor from Algier?

@kg7162 10 месяцев назад

Hello from algeria

@alyssapowell1799 10 месяцев назад

The book The Stolen Village by Des Ekin is utterly horrifying for what happened to the commoners who couldn't afford to buy their way out of slavery after being kidnapped by Barbary Pirates - and also the descriptions of how the Barbary Pirates were known to kill babies & toddlers because they wanted the women without children. It makes fictional stories out of Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice & Fire sound tame. The aristocracy of Europe didn't need to worry about being sold into slavery by the Barbary Pirates - they could pay the ransom. The average people of England (especially Cornwall) and Ireland were the ones having entire villages rounded up and sold into slavery to never see their homes again. That significantly impacted those who immigrated to the US - since they were the ones terrified of the pirates. When the Barbary Pirates started raiding the US coast - especially the Carolinas - it was impacting immigrates from the same areas that had been badly hit in the British Isles. The village of Baltimore in Ireland which had the entire village rounded up and sold into slavery in 1631 - wasn't inhabited again until after the US stopped the Barbary Pirates.

@bernhardt1557 10 месяцев назад

that is messed up... they could have obliterated those pirates had they worked together...

@Eshanas 10 месяцев назад

They never raided the Americas, what are you on about. They started hitting American shipping in the 1780s in the Mediterraneanz

@robertmoffett3486 10 месяцев назад

No Barbary pirate ever came near the US. Pirates who attacked American shipping in the Caribbean, or enroute, were of European extraction, British, French, and Spanish

@alejandrop.s.3942 10 месяцев назад

@robertmoffett3486 I don't know if they reached America, but they most definetely launched attacks as far as Iceland.

@savioblanc 10 месяцев назад

The Catholic church had an order - and it's still functioning by the way - called The Trinitarians. The entire point of this Order was to literally travel to North Africa and the Middle East to visit the slave markets and buy back Western Christian slaves that were taken from Europe.

@remycallie 10 месяцев назад

"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli" -- always knew we must have done *something* in Tripoli for that line to make it into the Marines' Hymn, I just never knew what it was. Thanks!

@nik65stgt60 10 месяцев назад

Great content!

@sasakalak4681 10 месяцев назад

that anexation of Algier was really smart move of the French. Really smart move. They got few miles of sea and desert and now Paris burns every 2 weeks.

@johnnydemartin0 10 месяцев назад

Just a small error: when Algiers is mentioned, the map is highlighting Tripoli instead. Really enjoy your content just wanted to bring this to your attention!

@TheBrowncoat2112 10 месяцев назад

Statements like “opted out of taxation without representation” are the reason I keep coming back to this channel’s content!

@samome1994 10 месяцев назад

Another great video 😁 FYI though, at 0:33 you show Tripolitania instead of Algiers on the map 👍🏻

@SaintSaumon 10 месяцев назад

Excellent work! Just a small mistake at 00:28 : Algiers should be the white barbaric state, instead of the green state (Tripoli/Lybia) shown by the animation

@corymorimacori1059 10 месяцев назад

“I caught strapped with six pistols and a dagger, walk under the black flag with a scallywag swagger. Ain’t no parrot on my shoulder, ain’t no rings in my ear, I’m an irate pirate real swashbuckling buccaneer!” Blackbeard

@abxorb 10 месяцев назад

A fellow ERBOH connaisseur I see. 👌

@JB-yb4wn 10 месяцев назад

Yeah we all watch ERB.

@MuchWhittering 10 месяцев назад

"Pay them off." Because it worked so well with the Vikings.

@Mirokuofnite 10 месяцев назад

Or anyone. Paying off raiders and rebels only kicks the can down the road.

@50shekels 10 месяцев назад

As a former viking I am in complete agreement

@LD-Orbs 10 месяцев назад

Explosives work better than Danegeld. Fortunately by that time, the Vikings had already turned to Scandinavians, placing Sweden on the *smart* side of a naval bombardment. 💣

@revantobias8567 10 месяцев назад

never underestimate the trauma that has resulted from 1200 years of conflict.

@Zeruel3 10 месяцев назад

The Barbary pirates ranged incredibly far in their raiding and slaving, they carried off the entire population of Baltimore (in Ireland) into slavery and even managed to abduct people from Iceland

@sanepillow59 Месяц назад

Coooool

@nickeyzs1820 10 месяцев назад

I love his passive humor

@timothyodonnell8591 10 месяцев назад

Can we all just stop for a moment and thank James for the awesome graphics and the subtle humor therein.

@donparker1823 10 месяцев назад

Thanks, I have wondered about this question. They were a pretty tough nut to crack. The Naval academy has some of the weapons and artifacts of this war in their museum which is pretty cool.

@johnrivera922 10 месяцев назад

Enjoyed more than most. Ty

@DarkVaati13 10 месяцев назад

I think it's interesting how Morocco was actually one of the first nations to recognize America as an Independent nation and actually signed the oldest active treaty with America

@thomasrinschler6783 10 месяцев назад

By this time period, Morocco wasn't as involved as Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, who were the main offenders when it came to piracy (although there was still some piracy, just not as much as the others).

@sihollett 10 месяцев назад

It's not if you remember that the Boston Tea Party was an act of piracy and that the perpetrators were annoyed at the newly-lowered (yes, lowered) tax on tea threatened their illegal tea-smuggling business. A pirate-supporting nation like 1770s Morocco was always going to love a nation that celebrates such behaviour. Kindred spirits! ;)

@phoule76 10 месяцев назад

-America- The United States of America

@theshlauf 10 месяцев назад

@@phoule76 You're goddam right. o7 🇺🇸

@ibracadabra882 10 месяцев назад

Morocco has nothing to do with this war. When the Moroccan Emperor rencognised the independance of the US, he also declared safe passage for American ships.

@joedance14 9 месяцев назад

At 0:34, the audio track states, “the most notorious of them was Algiers”, and the video at that point highlights the coastal region of modern day Libya, including Tripoli. Algiers is 631 miles to the west of Tripoli, Libya - between Morocco and Tunisia.

@goofyiest 10 месяцев назад

Love the French coming in at the end, "We fixed it." !!

@tonysoprano..- 10 месяцев назад

This makes John Adams’s comment about how he’d rather be resident minister to the Barbary pirates then serve Hamilton a lot clearer!

@Lakalyren 10 месяцев назад

Sir, as much as I like your videoes I think you overlooked the Danish-Algerian War (1769-72) in this one. Yes, the danes lost spectacularly and payed their way out - but it was not for lack of trying to deal with the Barbary states.

@sala7tt 10 месяцев назад

Id love to see a video about how was life in East Germany outisde Berlin, as I've never seen anyone discuss it. Loved the video!

@Egg.335 10 месяцев назад

As a berber, I confirm that we still use these tactics to land safely on italian chores

@anonymous-hz2un 10 месяцев назад

Yea, you really like to cause mess everywhere you go

@Egg.335 10 месяцев назад

@@anonymous-hz2un I'm just kidding those are my imazighen brothers visiting their italian neighbours !!!

@ronmastrio2798 9 месяцев назад

So we agree they need to be treated the same way as pirates then?

@sanepillow59 Месяц назад

Based

@gorillahackerman 10 месяцев назад

I don’t know what you are talking about, Spain usually conquers the whole of North Africa pretty quickly in my play throughs

@galatheumbreon6862 10 месяцев назад

Vicky 2?

@George-hn5by 10 месяцев назад

Always a good day when you upload

@willhooke 7 месяцев назад

Very interesting context 🤔

@prakashghumaliya2002 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for video sir

@alexlower505 10 месяцев назад

We need a video on the life and times of James "He's mad, son!" Madison.

@anilbhat9980 10 месяцев назад

Great video and interesting information thought never really about it

@tmike_tc 6 месяцев назад

“Opted OUT of taxation without representation...”. Love it!

@TXnine7nine 8 месяцев назад

1:20 I die laughing every time those ships zoom by with car engine sounds 😂

@Katafrakt_ 10 месяцев назад

"The most notorious being Algiers." *Map proceeds to center on Tripolitania*

@quuaaarrrk8056 10 месяцев назад

0:32 Colouring the later French colonial possesions in blue, white, red. I see what you did there Also, isn't the green area Libya/Tripolitania, as opposed to Algiers?

@markmaki4460 10 месяцев назад

Well he got it right later, so at least it was probably just bad editing.

@quuaaarrrk8056 10 месяцев назад

@@markmaki4460Presumably. He probably inserted the wrong animation/picture.