"Declaration of War The expulsion of American vessels from the Mediterranean during the War of 1812 by the British navy further emboldened the pirate nations in their attacks on US flagged vessels. Umar ben Muhammad, Dey of Algiers, the "Omar Bashaw" of the 1815 treaty, expelled the US consul general Tobias Lear and declared war on the United States for failing to pay its required tribute."
When formal war is declared against us, we do not need to do the same. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Barbary_War#Declaration_of_War I guess you could extend that to "acts of war". Personally I don't think that the constitution was clear enough on what constituted a formal declaration of war. -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 4:11 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: in the oh hell no category That was a military engagements authorized by Congress On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:06 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Beyond that one of the first declared wars the US ever fought was against > the Barbary Pirates and they weren't a nation state. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318048 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
