Quasi Wars (Failed Revolutions)

The Quasi Wars (1780-86) is the name given to the small piracy era that dominated Europe for 6 years. During this small period the major powers of Europe began hiring privateers and mercenaries to conduct raids on each others trade routes starting with the French and Spanish using Privateers and Mercenaries to conduct raids against the British in the Atlantic in order to supply the American Insurgents in order to further weaken the British Empire. The conflict further escalated bringing in the Austrian Empire, the Ottoman Empire , the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway into the conflict. Eventually by 1786 the Quasi Wars took it's toll on the economies of most European Nations and soon many mercenaries soon found themselves forced to find refuge in North Africa where they would establish their own Pirate State in Algeria with the support of the Ottoman Sultan.