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Chapter Four The Pirates
31 Chapter Four The Pirates The following is excerpted from a web posting and is printed here with permission of the author, Francis Ferraro. Posted by: Francis Ferraro </cgi ...
http://www.memoirist.com/The%20Barbary%20Pirates.pdf
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Alien Tort Claims Act cases keep coming
In 1789—when Barbary pirates represented a serious threat to American commerce—Congress passed a statute now known as the Alien Tort Claims Act.
http://www.skadden.com/content/Publications/Publications1866_0.pdf
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Miguel de Cervantes, 1547-1616
Taken by Barbary pirates, he spent 5 years in captivity in Algeria, although on at least four occasions he tried to escape. Once back in Spain, he found work as a royal agent ...
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/158/9/1392.pdf
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PART III NLCC PETTY OFFICER THIRD CLASS
OVERSEAS As you learned earlier, our troubles with the Barbary Pirates did not end until 1815. At that time President James Madison ordered a small squadron to the Mediterranean ...
http://compass.seacadets.org/cadets/nlcc_syllabus/d_part3.pdf
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The Not-So-Jolly Roger
The young United States became involved with piracy in 1797 when Barbary pirates demanded payment to leave American ships alone. President Thomas Jefferson sent a naval force to ...
http://www.timewarptrio.com/teachers-parents/lessons/pdf/twt-lesson-pirates.pdf
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Behind the Names
He projected American power into the Mediterranean by sending a naval squadron to fight the Barbary pirates who had been harassing American interests.
http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/names/names2.pdf
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Treaty With Tripoly
In 1784, Barbary pirates captured the U.S. schooner Maria and took the crew and passengers to Algeria, where they were paraded through the streets and jeered as "infidels" before ...
http://www.au.org/resources/history/old-docs/joel-barlow-and-the-treaty.pdf
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The Pirates of Puntland: Practical, Legal and Policy Issues in the ...
The spur to passage of this act was the seizure by Barbary pirates of 11 U.S. ships and continued foreign harassment of U.S. merchant vessels generally in that area.
http://www.klgates.com/files/Publication/ac22f46f-de64-41d5-a99c-8566b961c41e/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/fbdacf5...
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Supreme Court of the United States
Beginning with the war against the Barbary Pirates of North Africa, the first formal war under our nation's Constitution, 2 this nation has commemorated the service and sacrifice of ...
http://libertylegal.org/Img/Summum.pdf
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NEWS L E TT E R
... recitation of the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner , a discourse on the sex-life of butterflies, the rivers of Iraq, the discovery of Chichenitza, or relatives caught by Barbary pirates off ...
http://www.columbiasurgery.org/news/john/jjss_su02.pdf
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