Ka cika wannan magana: A shekara ta 1801, Yusuf ya bukaci haraji na dala 225,000 daga Shugaban Amurka Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson, mai dogaro da ikon sabon Sojojin ruwan Amurka don kare jigilar Amurka, ya ƙi buƙatun Pasha, wanda ya sa Pasha ya ayyana yaƙi ba bisa ƙa'ida ba, a watan Mayu 1801, ta hanyar yanke tutar tutar a gaban ofishin jakadancin Amurka. Jefferson ya amsa ta hanyar ba da umarnin Sojojin Ruwa na Amurka zuwa cikin Bahar Rum, tare da samun nasarar rufe tashar jiragen ruwa na Tripolitania a 1803. Bayan wasu nasarorin soja na farko, musamman kama jirgin ruwan USS Philadelphia, ba da daɗewa ba pasha ya sami kansa yana fuskantar barazanar mamayewa daga sojojin ƙasa na Amurka biyo bayan...
Yaƙin Derna da dawo da ɗan'uwansa da aka sauke, Hamet Karamanli, wanda jami'in sojojin Amurka William Eaton ya ɗauka. Ya sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar kawo karshen yakin a ranar 10 ga Yuni, 1805.