In Search Of History - Pirates Of The Barbary Coast (History Channel Documentary)

Narrated by David Ackroyd

After the Revolutionary War, the first challenge to the power of the newly formed United States came from an unlikely source--marauding pirates off the North African Barbary Coast.

We sail back and see how the threat the pirates posed led to establishment of the U.S. Navy in 1794 when Congress authorized six warships.

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