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Barbary Coast Wars: Meaning and Definition of
Bar'bary Coast" Wars'
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— U.S. Hist. U.S. Hist.
- wars fought along the coast of North Africa 1801–15 over the harassment of U.S. ships despite the payment of tribute money to the piratical Barbary States. Cf. Tripolitan War.
