• The Commodore-in-Charge, Algiers was an administrative shore based appointment of the British Royal Navy established during World war II who was responsible...
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    The Commander-in-Chief, Levant was a senior administrative shore commander of the Royal Navy. The post was established in February 1943 when the British...
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    such as Commodore (D) Commodore, Algeria reported to the C-in-C, Med Fleet from December 1942 to February 1943 the officer then reports to C-in-C, Levant...
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    the Sublime Porte. However, Algiers was defeated in the Second Barbary War by the United States in 1815, when Commodore Stephen Decatur's squadron killed...
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  • The Hundred Days (novel) (category Fiction set in 1815)
    Amos Jacob negotiate in Algiers, where, among other accomplishments, Maturin shoots a lioness leaping at him and the Dey of Algiers. Reviewers enjoyed this...
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    the Eastern Naval Task Force to take part in Operation Torch (the invasion of North Africa) and entered Algiers Harbour on 9 November 1942, the day after...
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    Josiah Tattnall III (category Articles lacking in-text citations from October 2018)
    Mediterranean with Commodore Stephen Decatur's squadron to engage the Barbary Pirates in Algiers in the Second Barbary War. On June 17, she participated in the capture...
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    William Radford (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
    returned for a third tour with the Mediterranean Squadron, Commodore Isaac Hull in charge. On March 6, 1841, due to the Oregon Question, Radford was summoned...
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    John Shaw (naval officer) (category United States Navy commodores)
    Shaw captained United States and left for Algiers. When he arrived at Málaga in September 1815 with Commodore William Bainbridge, the conflict was already...
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    Danneskiold-Samsøe off Algiers. From 1746 as a Senior Lieutenant. He held various appointments at the royal court from 1750 to 1760 In 1750 he was second in command...
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    John Rodgers (naval officer, born 1772) (category United States Navy commodores)
    Commodore John Rodgers (July 11, 1772 – August 1, 1838) was a United States Navy officer who served during the Navy's formative years from the 1790s through...
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    USS Congress (1799) (category Ships built in Kittery, Maine)
    arrival, however, Commodore Decatur had already secured a peace treaty with Algiers. Congress, Erie, Chippewa and Spark sailed in company with Bainbridge's...
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    downward recoil of its weapons). Five such vessels were used to shell Algiers in 1682 destroying the land forts, and killing some 700 defenders[citation...
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    USS Herbert C. Jones (category Articles lacking in-text citations from September 2015)
    the Mediterranean, arriving Algiers via Gibraltar 16 October to begin a year of escort duty along the North African coast. In a German attack 6 November...
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    Congreve rocket (category Articles incorporating Cite DNB template an ndash in the wstitle parameter)
    Lawrence's rocket detachment took part in the final land engagement of the War of 1812 at Fort Bowyer in February 1815. Algiers had been the centre for pirates...
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    USS Finch (DE-328) (category Ships built in Orange, Texas)
    escorted two oil tanker convoys to Casablanca and Algiers until 31 May. After training in the Caribbean and in Casco Bay, she departed from Norfolk on 28 July...
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    USS Menges (category Ships built in Orange, Texas)
    convoys. On the night of 20 April her convoy, UGS 38, while off the coast of Algiers en route to the east coast of the U.S., was attacked by 30 German torpedo...
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    USS Pride (category Ships built in Orange, Texas)
    during the second voyage German planes attacked Convoy UGS–38 at dusk off Algiers, and sank five ships, including a transport carrying 500 soldiers, and...
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    USS Sloat (DE-245) (category Ships built in Houston)
    April, approximately 56 miles west of Algiers. Two planes were shot down and two damaged while only one ship in the convoy was damaged. The convoy arrived...
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    USS John Adams (1799) (category Ships built in Charleston, South Carolina)
    was to take her former commander, ex-Commodore Porter, to Constantinople where he became the U.S.'s first chargé d'affaires. The ship was granted the...
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    USS President (1800) (category Ships built in New York City)
    all of her cargo. In March 1796 a peace accord was announced between the United States and Algiers. Construction was suspended in accordance with the...
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    USS Peterson (DE-152) (category Articles lacking in-text citations from October 2020)
    Texas, 6 October 1943 to continue her outfitting, then sailed by way of Algiers, Louisiana to Bermuda for shakedown. She reported to Charleston, South...
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    This list includes military conflicts involving the United States in the 19th century. This list is part of a larger series of list articles that cover...
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    USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    Jacob Jones (DD-130), named for Commodore Jacob Jones USN (1768–1850), was a Wickes-class destroyer. She was sunk by a German submarine in 1942 during World War...
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  • Samuel Evans (naval officer) (category Articles lacking in-text citations from May 2017)
    Washington, which was attached to the squadron of Commodore Thomas Tingey on the Guadaloupe Station. In 1801 he again served with the USS George Washington...
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    British fatalities in the action. The six La Galissonnière-class cruisers at Algiers were summoned but did not reach Mers-El-Kebir in time. The Préfet Maritime...
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    Piracy (redirect from Piracy in terrorism)
    Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818. In 1820, another British fleet under Admiral Sir Harry Neal again bombarded Algiers. Corsair activity based in Algiers did not entirely...
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    he was appointed to the bomb vessel Meteor to take part in the demonstration before Algiers made by Vice-Admiral Sir Harry Burrard-Neale. Subsequently...
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    USS Falgout (category Ships built in Orange, Texas)
    picking up survivors or escorting the damaged ships into the nearest port, Algiers, Falgout screened the convoy on to its original destination, Bizerte. The...
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    USS Woolsey (DD-437) (category Ships built in Bath, Maine)
    named Woolsey in the United States Navy. It is the first to be named for both Commodore Melancthon Brooks Woolsey and his father Commodore Melancthon Taylor...
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