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Right around the early presidencies of Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the US Navy/commercial fleet was in constant conflict with the Barbary Pirates as american trade ships made their voyages around the North African coastline.
Though they were eventually pacified via consistent naval engagement, is it plausible that a North African colony couldve been taken as a spoil of war as well?
If so, what would an American enclave in Morrocco, Tunis, Algeria, or Libya look like and would it be defensible?