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Identifier: ournavybarbaryco00alle (find matches)
Title: Our navy and the Barbary corsairs
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Allen, Gardner Weld, 1856-1944
Subjects: United States. Navy
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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is enemys boat — & again retreats from the harbour. Prebles Squadron attacking Tripoli . . . 194Battle of Aug. 3, 1804. From the painting by Come,1805, at the Naval Academy, Annapolis. Richard Somers 210 This silhouette is reproduced, with the kind permissionof the author, from Absegami: Annals of Eyren Haven ILLUSTRATIONS xiu and Atlantic City, 1609 to 1904, by Alfred M. Heston.Published by the author, Atlantic City, N. J., 1904.Mr. Heston says : The late Dr. J. B. Somers, ofthis county, a near relative of Commander Somers,informed me that the only portrait of the hero nowextant is a silhouette with his signature underneath. John Rodgers 224 From The Polyanthos (Oct., 1813). Engraved by JohnR. Smith from a portrait by Henry Williams. Decaturs Squadron off Algiers .... 286June 30, 1815. From The Naval Temple. Engravedby N. Jocelin. Squadron of Commodore Bainbrtdge . . 292Homeward bound from Gibraltar, Oct. 6, 1815. FromThe Naval Temple. Drawn by M. Cornd, engraved byW. S. Leney.
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OUR NAYY AND THE BARBARYCORSAIRS CHAPTER IWHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES Along the northern coast of Africa, between theMediterranean and the Sahara, stretching from theAtlantic to Egypt, a distance of two thousand miles,lie the Barbary States. They are Morocco, Algeria,Tunis, and Tripoli, with the unimportant Barca on theeast, generally included in Tripoli. Of these Algeria,formerly called by the name of its capital Algiers, andnow a colony of France, was the most powerful andaggressive in the days of piracy. Barbary is in the latitude of our Southern States,and is blessed with a mild climate and fertile soil.The coast is high and rocky from the Straits of Gib-raltar to Cape Bon ; beyond that it is low, the wateris shoal, and reefs extend far off shore. Most of theharbors are very open and exposed to the north. Astrong current sets in from the Atlantic and sweepsalong the African coast. From September to Aprilfrequent and severe gales blow, making naval opera-tions difficult and

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