Algerine War
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- Algerine War. // Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition;Feb2013, p1
Algerine War (ăl′jərēn″), early 19th-century conflict between Algiers and the United States. The Tripolitan War (1801–5) had brought a temporary halt to the pirate activities of the Barbary States. However, during the subsequent Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 the Barbary pirates...
- LEGITIMIZING THE NOVEL: ROYALL TYLER'S The Algerine Captive. Dennis, Larry R. // Early American Literature;Spring1974, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p71
Critiques the novel 'The Algerine Captive: The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner among the Algerines,' by early American author Royall Tyler. Presentation as history; Attempt by Tyler to extend the audience for the American novel; Judgment of the novel in...
- Stephen Decatur. // Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition;Feb2013, p1
Decatur, Stephen (dēkā′tər), 1779–1820, American naval officer, b. Sinepuxent, near Berlin, Md.; son of a naval officer, Stephen Decatur. After joining the U.S. navy in 1798, he rose to fame in the Tripolitan War. In 1804 he and his men stole into Tripoli harbor and destroyed the captured...
- Stephen Decatur. // Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition;Feb2013, p1
Decatur, Stephen (dēkā′tər), 1779–1820, American naval officer, b. Sinepuxent, near Berlin, Md.; son of a naval officer, Stephen Decatur. After joining the U.S. navy in 1798, he rose to fame in the Tripolitan War. In 1804 he and his men stole into Tripoli harbor and destroyed the captured...
- "All Parts of the Union I Considered My Home.". HOLT, KERI // Early American Literature;Nov2011, Vol. 46 Issue 3, p481
The article presents literary criticism of the book "The Algerine Captive" by Royall Tyler. According to the author, Tyler uses the novel to represent political, social, and religious differences in U.S. society and to promote a federalist model of national unity. Details related to the book's...
- Royall Tyler. // Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition;Feb2013, p1
Tyler, Royall, 1757–1826, American jurist, author, and playwright, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1776. He served in the colonial army during the American Revolution and later in the suppression of Shays's Rebellion. Tyler was admitted to the bar in 1780; he practiced law in Maine, later in...
- Royall Tyler. // Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition;Feb2013, p1
Tyler, Royall, 1757–1826, American jurist, author, and playwright, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1776. He served in the colonial army during the American Revolution and later in the suppression of Shays's Rebellion. Tyler was admitted to the bar in 1780; he practiced law in Maine, later in...
- Documents and Bibliographies. // American Historical Review;Dec2012, Vol. 117 Issue 5, p1711
A bibliography is presented on topics of history which includes the books "The Queen of America: Mary Cutts’s Life of Dolley Madison," by Catherine Allgor, part of the "Jeffersonian America" book series, "Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More Than Twenty-Five...
- CRITICS' CHOICE. // Daily Mail;3/27/2012, p56
MACHINES OF WAR
