Since its infancy, America has been getting in and out of the African continent. Africa was the site of our fledgling nation’s first foreign military success — and shame.

After winning independence, the United States no longer enjoyed the protection of the British flag. Washington soon realized it would have to build its own navy to protect the American merchant fleet from the Barbary pirates.

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