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Why were they over there?
The Barbary Wars - at the time, North Africa was dominated by a series of pirate-states which made a living extorting tribute from merchant ships. While we were on good terms with Morocco, the rest attacked and seized American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean, which was unacceptable to the still-young US government. So we had about a dozen US marines lead an army of mercenaries to attack them until we could come to peace terms with the Barbary States.
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