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Thomas Jefferson: “With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers…”

On the recordNovember 7, 1808
With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers toward our consul to that Regency.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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