Algeria - History - 1516-1830
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Cervantes in Algiers : a captive's tale / María Antonia Garcés.
Garcés, María Antonia.Date: 2002- E-books
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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.
Mathew CareyDate: October 20, 1794. (Copy right secured, according to act of Congress)- E-books
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A voyage to Barbary, for the redemption of captives performed (in 1720) by the Mathurin-Trinitarian Fathers, Fran. Comelin, Philemon de la Motte, and Jos. Bernard. Now first Englished from the French original. With lists of more than 400 Slaves ransomed (by the Royal Bounty of their late and present Majesties) from Mequeniz: Also very exact Draughts of that Place, Alcasar, Oran, and its Neighbourhood, with Maps, &c To which is subjoined, the history, ancient and modern, of Oran, &c. With a Journal of the Spaniards Procedure in those their recent African Conquests. The whole illustrated with Annotations Historical, Critical, and Explanatory.
La Motte, Phil�emon de.Date: MD.CC.CXXXV[1735]- E-books
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A compleat history of the present seat of war in Africa, between the Spaniards and Algerines; giving a full and exact account of Oran and Al-Marsa. Compiled from the best approved Spanish writers; the Author's Twenty Years Knowledge of the Country; and from diverse late Conferences with Haj Mahammed, the Algerine Envoy and Haj Ali, his Excellency's Secretary, now here Resident. With a New Map of the Kingdom of Algiers; and several Useful Annotations. By J. Morgan Gent
Morgan, J., fl. 1739.Date: M.DC.XXXII. M.DC.XXXII [i.e. 1732]- E-books
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Voyage to Algiers and Tunis, for the redemption of captives performed (in 1720) by the Mathurin-Trinitarian Fathers, Fran. Comelin, Philemon de la Motte, and Jos. Bernard. Now first Englished from the French original. With lists of more than 400 Slaves ransomed (by the Royal Bounty of their late and present Majesties) from Miquenez: Also very exact Draughts of that Place, Alcasar, Oran, and its Neighbourhood, with Maps, &c. To which is subjoined, the history, ancient and modern, of Oran, &c. With a Journal of the Spaniards Procedure in those their recent African Conquests. The whole illustrated with Annotations Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. By J. Morgan, Gent.
La Motte, Phil�emon de.Date: MD.CC.XXXV. [1735]