European Naval Demonstration: Tunis 1819

An ultimatum from the European Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1819), backed by a naval demonstration, by a combined English and French squadron, compelled the Bey of Tunis (on the Barbary coast) to give up piracy. The definite abandonment of piracy created a financial crisis. The government had not elasticity enough to adapt itself to so profound a change in its ancient traditions; the finances became more and more hopelessly embarrassed, in spite of ruinous taxation; and attempts at European innovations in the court and army made matters only worse.

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Military History, 854; Barbary States; Tunisia; Algeria.

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