A short account of Algiers, and of its several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe, from the usurpation of Barbarossa and the invasion of the Emperor Charles V. to the present time. With a concise view of the origin of the rupture between Algiers and the United States. [Four lines from Buchanan] To which is added, a copious appendix, containing letters from Captains Penrose, M'Shane, and sundry other American captives, with a description of the treatment those prisoners experience.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Algeria--Foreign relations--United States--Early works to 1800.

Algeria.

Algeria--History--1516-1830.

United States--Foreign relations--Algeria--Early works to 1800.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates ) 1 folded map ;

Edition:

Second edition, improved.

Other Title:

Short account of Algiers,

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street, October 20, 1794. (Copy right secured, according to act of Congress)

Notes:

Attributed to Mathew Carey by Evans.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.

Map of the Barbary Coast signed: J.T. Scott, sculp.

"Extracts from a 'Poem on the happiness of America,' by Colonel Humphrys."--p. 46-50.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [51-52].

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 26733

English Short Title Catalog, W29400.

OCLC:

642787224