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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by SHIT_TALKER on Friday November 13, 2015 @10:51PM (#10564355)
Context: It was French colonization that put an end to the predations of the Barbary pirates and the Arab slave trade.
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by mercurial on Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:38AM (#10564975)
Context: the French king Charles X was in a difficult political situation and needed money, so attacking the then-Ottoman-dominated Algeria looked like a good idea at the time. The slave trade had stopped years ago, and the pirate activity, while not over, was way down.
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by SHIT_TALKER on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:21AM (#10565196)
The slave trade had stopped years ago, and the pirate activity, while not over, was way down.

Thanks to military defeats at the hands of Americans, English, and Dutch.

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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by mercurial on Saturday November 14, 2015 @07:43AM (#10565465)
I'm not sure where you're going with that.
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