• 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 Regency of Algiers (Arabic: دولة الجزائر, romanized: Dawlat al-Jaza'ir), a largely independent early modern Ottoman tributary state on the Barbary...
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    Allied forces in Mediterranean theater of the war, approved plans for a three-pronged attack on Casablanca (Western), Oran (Center) and Algiers (Eastern)...
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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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    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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    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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    USS President (1800) (category Ships built in New York City)
    United States and Algiers. Construction was suspended in accordance with the Naval Act of 1794. At the onset of the Quasi-War with France in 1798, funds were...
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    John Rodgers (naval officer, born 1772) (category United States Navy commodores)
    had replaced Commodore Alexander Murray, as commander of the Delaware squadron. Rodgers ordered Lieutenant Charles Morgan to take charge of the squadron...
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    disasters in the 18th century List of maritime disasters in the 19th century List of maritime disasters in the 20th century List of maritime disasters in World...
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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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    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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    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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  • American Civil War Radice, F. R. (8 January 1927). "The Revolution of 1821 in Piedmont". Notes and Queries. 152–153: 26–27 – via Hathi Trust. "Sardinia...
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    J. P. Morgan (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    pier. They travelled to Algiers, where he hoped the warm climate would restore their health, but it did not, and she died in Nice in February 1862, four months...
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    Admiral-Superintendent, Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, Kent HMS Pembroke, HQ, Commodore-in-Command, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, Chatham, Kent HMS Phœnicia, Manoel...
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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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    Original six frigates of the United States Navy (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    Alliance. But almost simultaneously troubles began in the Mediterranean when Algiers seized two American merchant ships and held their crews for ransom. Minister...
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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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    – torpedoed 20 April 1944 by U-371 off Algiers, damaged USS Holder (DE-401) – damaged 11 April 1944 off Algiers by German aircraft USS Newell (DE-322)...
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    John Paul Jones (category Burials in Maryland)
    was an investor in western lands with William Trent. In June 1792, Jones was appointed U.S. Consul to treat with the Dey of Algiers for the release of...
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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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    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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    Blackbeard (category People killed in action)
    himself the rank of Commodore and was at the height of his power. Late that month his flotilla blockaded the port of Charles Town in the Province of South...
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    David Porter (naval officer) (category United States Navy commodores)
    – March 3, 1843) was an officer in the United States Navy in the rank of captain and the honorary title of commodore. Porter commanded a number of U.S...
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    William Eaton (soldier) (category American expatriates in Tunisia)
    the United States was behind in payments to the dey of Algiers. In 1797, Joel Barlow, United States Consul to Algiers, negotiated with the dey and promised...
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    Lester Young (category Alcohol-related deaths in New York City)
    Irma Cornelia. He grew up in a musical family. His father was a teacher and band leader. While growing up in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans...
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