The Barbary Treaties : Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli
US Government November 4, 1796 A treaty negotiated during the Washington administration and ratified by the Senate during the presidency of John Adams, attempted to assuage Tripoli that America was not pursuing a religious war against them: “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered…