Ivory Coast expedition | |||||||
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Part of the African Slave Trade Patrol | |||||||
![]() Veterans of the expedition on board Saratoga in 1842. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
![]() | Bereby | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
![]() | Ben Crack-O † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Land: 50 marines 150 sailors Sea: 1 frigate 2 sloops-of-war 1 brigantine | unknown |
The Ivory Coast expedition, or the Liberia expedition, was a naval operation in 1842, launched by the United States against the West African Bereby people. After the attacks on the merchant ships Mary Carver and Edward Barley, the American Congress approved a punitive expedition to the area and placed Commodore Matthew C. Perry in command. The expedition was successful in exacting redress by destroying the fortified town of Little Bereby and by killing the chief responsible for the attacks on American shipping.[1]