During the Barbary Wars, did Tripoli and Tunis get get a tribute of arms in addition to the money?

Question

Or was it just Algeria that received weapons?

Answer 1

despite using wikipedia, Dan gets the high spots...including the important last sentence "as a result the US built a Navy..."

one of those ships is still a commissioned warship, the USS Constitution; after we had a Navy and thusly had the power to do something other than buy off our enemies, the Navy went back, with a different message for the 18th Century Muslim pirates....it is depicted in a painting of Constitution and Enterprise standing into Tripoli Harbor, guns run out; the name of the painting is: "Payment in Iron:"

Answer 2

From what i can tell it was just $... at least from the US. Its possible that England and France may have traded arms for safe passage, but th US really had nothing of military value to trade.

Per wiki...
"In 1784, the United States Congress allocated money for payment of tribute to the pirates.

Captain William Bainbridge paying tribute to the Dey.Use for the money came in 1785, when the Dey of Algiers took two American ships hostage and demanded US$60,000 in ransom for their crews. Then-ambassador to France Thomas Jefferson argued that conceding the ransom would only encourage more attacks. His objections fell on the deaf ears of an inexperienced American government too riven with domestic discord to make a strong show of force overseas. The U.S. paid Algiers the ransom, and continued to pay up to $1 million per year over the next 15 years for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. Payments in ransom and tribute to the privateering states amounted to 20 percent of United States government annual revenues in 1800."

It was result of this that the US built a Navy.

Hope that helps

Dan