Question

Crushing international piracy has been a priority of the US Navy since its inception. For 10 points each:
[10e] Along with Sweden and Sicily, the US fought this series of wars in the 1800s against Tripoli, Algiers, and other pirate-sponsoring states in North Africa.
ANSWER: Barbary Wars
[10m] Though this French pirate helped the US at the Battle of New Orleans, he returned to piracy after his Campeche colony failed; thereafter, the US and Spain hunted him in the West Indies until his 1825 death.
ANSWER: Jean Lafitte
[10h] In the 1830s, the US sent two punitive expeditions against this far-off island in response to attacks on the merchantmen Friendship and Eclipse. British anti-pirate operations protected a colony at Bencoolen on this island.
ANSWER: Sumatra
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Cornell BCornell A1010020