American consul’s role in U.S-Algerian relations : Richard O’Brien and William Shaler samples

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The regency of Algiers has played an important role in the west part of the Mediterranean Sea because it did not allow any European state to sail in this sea without authorisation.

The passport delivered by the Dey allowed Europeans states to do business in a normal way provided that protection to its commercial boats was insured among these countries.

Then we have the U.

S which was then considered a new state.

As soon as the U.

S felt that it business is in danger in the Mediterranean Sea, it worked to have peace and signed a treaty with Algiers.

These treaties were not to be signed without consuls in the regency who struggled to serve their countries despite the hard times in their stay.

Despite of all this, the U.

S transgressed the treaties, these consults were appointed in Algiers and lived circumstances similar to the ones of the U.

S.

However, time affected the Algerian maritime activity which has regressed at the beginning of XIXe century and the weakness has deepened and influenced negatively the Regency which was mined by internal crisis on one side and industrial progress of European and American fleets on the other side and the fact induced a returning of the situation in the Mediterranean and worsened the U.

S Algiers relations.