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Jefferson, Madison and Mellimelli

Piracy was not new in 1800. It had been around for centuries. The Barbary Pirates For centuries, North African countries then part of the Ottoman Empire, augmented their respective economies by state-sponsoring rogue pirates to plague commercial shipping on the … Continue reading

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