Our navy and the Barbary corsairs,

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Image 11 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARY CORSAIRS BY GARDNER W. ALLEN BOSTON, NEW YORK, AND CHICAGO HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY dbc fiitocrsibc prcstf, Cambnbfle W05

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Image 13 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER JOSEPH HENRY ALLEN

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Image 15 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, PREFACE The relations of the United States with the Barbary powers a century ago form an interesting and roman- tic episode in American history which has never before been presented as a...

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Image 17 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, CONTENTS I. White Slavery in the Barbary States 1 II. American Captives in Barbary 13 III. First Negotiations 25 IV. Peace with Algiers 4:) V. Peace with Tripoli and Tunis 59 VI....

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Image 19 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, ILLUSTRATIONS Explosion of the Intrepid Frontispiece (see p. 208) From an engraving in The Port Folio (Dec, 1810), in- scribed as follows: Blowing Up of the Fire ship Intrepid commanded by Capt....

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Image 20 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, xii ILLUSTRATIONS Stephen Decatur 166 From the Aualectic Magazine (June, 1813). Engraved by D. Edwin from a portrait by G. Stuart. Destruction of the Philadelphia 172 From an engraving in Waldo s...

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Image 21 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, ILLUSTRATIONS xiii and Atlantic City, 1G09 to 1904, by Alfred M. Heston. Published by the author, Atlantic City, N. J., 1904. Mr. Heston says The late Dr. J. B. Somers, of this...

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Image 25 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARY CORSAIRS CHAPTER I WHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES Along the northern coast of Africa, between the Mediterranean and the Sahara, stretching from the Atlantic to Egypt,...

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Image 26 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, 2 OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARA CORSAIRS levanters, are common. In the summer the weather is generally mild, but even then gales are not infre- quent. 1 These facts have a bearing...

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Image 27 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, WHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBART STATES 3 amicable. They traded together and made enlight- ened treaties. But with the dawn of the sixteenth cen- tury appears a change in the conditions, and...

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Image 28 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, 4 OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARY CORSAIRS appealed to by Sheik Salim for assistance in driving the Spanish from the Penon. Instead, he murdered the sheik, set himself up in his place,...

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Image 29 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, WHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES 5 the Spaniards about five years. Khair-ed-Din de- parted from Barbary and did not return. 1 In 1541 Charles V led another great armada across the...

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Image 30 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, 6 OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARY CORSAIRS petty pirates who continued to infest the Mediter- ranean until their extermination in the nineteenth cen- tury. Many of them were European renegades, and they...

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Image 31 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, WHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES 7 off the coast of Sardinia and kidnapped nearly a thou- sand people, mostly women and children. Many of the pirates of the seventeenth century grew...

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Image 32 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, 8 OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARY CORSAIRS O Reilly. This expedition is of interest to us from the fact that Joshua Barney, later a gallant figure in our naval annals, took part...

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Image 33 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, WHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES 9 men. The galleots were small galleys. The large gal- leys carried two hundred and seventy or more rowers, who with the officers, crew, and soldiers...

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Image 34 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, 10 OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARY CORSAIRS sels are peculiarly constructed. Their long lateen yards drop on board the enemy and afford a safe and easy conveyance for the men who man...

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Image 35 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, WHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES 11 tional offense. The government slaves had the heavi- est labor, especially quarrying stone and dragging it to the city on trucks. At night they were...

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Image 36 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, 12 OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARY CORSAIRS conquest of 1830. In 1825 Sweden, Denmark, Portu- gal, and Naples were still paying annual tribute. 1 In 1817 Tunisian pirates cruised in the English...

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Image 37 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, CHAPTER II AMERICAN CAPTIVES IN BARBARY We have records of American victims of the Barbary pirates during the colonial period. Two ships from Plymouth were seized in 1G25 in the English Channel...

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Image 38 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, 14 OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARY CORSAIRS off Cape St. Vincent by an Algerine xebec of four- teen guns, and on the 30th of the same month the ship Dauphin of Philadelphia,...

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Image 39 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, AMERICAN CAPTIVES IN BARBARY 15 of the United States ministers, Jefferson and Car- michael, at the courts of Versailles and Madrid. The captains had their own table and each had a small...

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Image 40 of Our navy and the Barbary corsairs, 16 OUR NAVY AND THE BARBARY CORSAIRS navy, passed through the Straits in search of prey. Eleven American vessels with one hundred and nine officers and men were captured in October and...

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