Lord Exmouth's bombardment of Tangiers in 1816 seems more relevant to Tedob1's original post..............the "Barbary Pirates" Once Napoleon had been dealt with, the European naval powers gave them a damn good hiding.
I believe that the USN had done something similar, earlier, but I put that down to a lack of civilisation (soccer) in the colonies :D :p ................we were still squabbling amongst ourselves :rolleyes:
