War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its size,

and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history

through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Music host, James Early. Welcome to the final episode in our series, Key Battles of the Barbary Wars.

We're going to put this Barbary Baby to bed.

We're going to bring our frigate into port.

We're going to do all those things. Do you have another

analogy or figure of speech James that we can use for wrapping up things with the pirates that we

grew to know and love over these last few weeks? No, you stole mine just like a pervery pirate.

Just don't suffer the slavery, okay? I like being free.

You know, just for a modest tribute here, there, you know, you have to, I'm going to

extol tribute of a host ad read of some meal home delivery kit that you have to provide

once a year.

That'll be enough ransom.

That's the podcaster's version of piracy listeners.

All right. Well, so we have,

if you've been joining us this whole time, got over the different episodes of the Barbary Wars.

And it's sort of like the Crusades where it's not a clearly defined set of battles

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