Found 2 collections related to United States -- History -- War with Algeria, 1815

One volume containing the journal of Amos A. Evans, surgeon aboard the warship U.S.S. Independence during the Second Barbary War, dated May 21, 1815 to January 31, 1816. The Independence cruised as Commodore Bainbridge's flagship from Boston to Cartagena, Algiers, Tunis, Malaga, Gibraltar, and returned via Newport, Rhode Island. The surgeon's journal includes daily sick and accident lists, treatments prescribed, and notes on weather, as well as descriptions of an influenza epidemic onboard, and Commodore Bainbridge's bout with measles less