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The Barbary Wars
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Enlarged squadron sent to Mediterranean under Commodore Edward Preble
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Eaton prosecutes Hamet idea in US. Jefferson signs off and appoints him Navy Agent to the Barbary States.
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Lear leaves Algiers aboard Constitution to go to Tunis to meet returning ambassador to US and finalize Coxe in his position.
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Wellington lands British troops in Mondego Bay to begin Peninsular campaign against Napoleon
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Treaty of Vienna. Austria gives up lands in Bavaria, Russia, and Duchy of Warsaw to Napoleon.
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Dey of Algiers murders David Coen Bacri, head of house of Bacri where Lear secured most of his loans
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U.S. declares war on Britain. War of 1812 begins, known also as “Mr. Madison’s War”
