Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Muna 1801, Yusuf akakumbira mutero we $225,000 kubva kuMutungamiri weUnited States Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson, ane chivimbo mukukwanisa kweUnited States Navy itsva kudzivirira kutakura kweAmerica, akaramba zvaidiwa naPasha, zvichitungamira Pasha kuzivisa hondo, muna Chivabvu 1801, nekugura mureza pamberi pemumiriri weAmerica. Jefferson akapindura nokurayira U.S. Navy kupinda muMediterranean, achibudirira kuvhara zviteshi zveTripolitania muna 1803. Mushure mekubudirira kwehondo kwekutanga, kunyanya kutorwa kweUSS Philadelphia, pasha akakurumidza kuzviwana achityisidzirwa nekupinda nemauto eAmerica mushure meHondo yeDerna
uye kudzorerwa kwomunun'una wake akanga abviswa pachigaro, Hamet Karamanli, akanga aunganidzwa nomukuru mukuru wemauto eAmerica William Eaton. Akasaina chibvumirano chokugumisa hondo yacho musi waJune 10, 1805.