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The Barbary Wars are sometimes called " America's Forgotten War ", although they share that dubious honor with several other conflicts. The wars largely passed out of popular memory within a generation. The punitive actions against the Barbary States were launched by the administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison . When they proved successful, partisans of the Democratic-Republicans contrasted their administrations' refusal to buy off the pirates with the failure of the preceding Federalist administration to live up to the rhetorical flight, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute," attributed to Charles C. Pinckney in the course of the XYZ Affair . The to the shores of Tripoli ..." SEE ALSO
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