2619209 Captain William Bainbridge paying the tribute to the Dey of Algiers to secure exemption from capture for U.S. merchant ships in the Mediterranean in 1800, from \'The History of Our Country\', published 1905 (litho) by Ogden, Henry Alexander (1856-1936) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Captain William Bainbridge paying the tribute which the United States still paid to the Dey of Algiers to secure exemption from capture for U.S. merchant ships in the Mediterranean in 1800 during the months prior to the First Barbary War. William Bainbridge, 1774 ? 1833. Commodore in the United States Navy. ); American, out of copyright.