Second Barbary War
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The Second Barbary War, also known as the U.S.–Algerian War and the Algerine War, was a brief military conflict between the United States and the North African state of Algiers in 1815.
Commodore Decatur’s Squadron capturing the Algerian pirate ship Mashuda, on 17 June 1815, Irwin Bevan
Decatur's squadron off Algiers
The Bombardment of Algiers was an attempt on 27 August 1816 by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers. An Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Admi
Second Barbary War
…December 1815. However, Agha later repudiated the treaty, as well as similar agreements with several European nations, until a combined Anglo-Dutch force bombarded Algiers in 1816; the subsequent arrival of a U.S. squadron carrying U.S. commissioner William Shaler led to a new but substantially similar treaty on 23 December 1816…
Bombardment of Algiers, 1816 George Chambers, 1836
Council of War on board the 'Queen Charlotte', commanded by Lord Exmouth, prior to the Bombardment of Algiers, 26 August 1816 (Nicolaas Baur, 1818)
Panorama of the Battle of Algiers 1816, illustration from panoramic views exhibited in Leicester Square, London, 1818
Sketch showing the positions of the fleet during the bombardment