The story goes back to 1801, from the war between the United States and the Ottoman Empire .<br /> The war took place in 1801 and lasted until 1804. It was the first war that America fought outside its borders, when the Americans refused to pay the tribute to the Ottoman ruler Youssef Pasha Al-Qarmanli for the entry of the American fleet into the Mediterranean... This led to the anger of the governor, who ordered the breaking of the American flagpole in the American embassy in Tripoli, Libya, insulting the American ambassador and asking for his expulsion.<br /> US President Jefferson sent the US fleet to discipline the governor of Tripoli, Youssef Karamanli, for insulting America.<br /> The naval war began, but soon ended with a catastrophe for America, where the American fleet was besieged and its largest ship, the Philadelphia, was captured, and more than 301 sailors on board laid down their arms .<br /> When America was unable to recover it, it sent spies and burnt it, but the Americans did not surrender, instead they deliberately spread rumours to start disputes between the governor of Tripoli and his brother Ahmed Pasha al-Qarmani in Egypt, and he was bribed with money and beautiful women who were specially brought to him from America in order to ally with them against the governor of Tripoli and change the regime he ruled and promised him authority over Tripoli (Libya).<br /> The Americans prepared a huge army to invade the city of Derna (eastern Libya) and avenge the first defeat ... but the governor of Tripoli had sought the help of forces from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and the Ottoman Empire, and the battle ended with another gruesome defeat for the Americans with the American army, having about 1800 killed in one day, 700 captured and the rest trapped. .<br /> This defeat ultimately led to America signing a humiliating agreement with the governors of Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, according to which America agreed to pay compensation to the Islamic countries for every soldier killed, and also pay double the previous tribute and render an apology to the three Islamic countries.<br /> To this day you will find in the anthem of the US Navy, which has not changed since that time, the beginning of which says:<br />From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we fight the battles of our country in the air, land and sea.<br /> This extraordinary story shows us the extent of our ignorance of our Islamic history, which our enemies have deliberately concealed or distorted.<br /> It also shows us the main driver of American policies in the region, originally motivated on taking revenge from Muslims and Arabs.<br /><br /> This is written so that our children know some of the history of Islam and the Ottoman Empire, which the Zionists and the Crusaders defamed as colonialism in order to make us disregard it.<br /> It's a battle of awareness.<br />