Captain William Bainbridge paying tribute on behalf of the United States to the Dey of Algiers. The tribute secured exemption from capture for U.S. merchant ships in the Mediterranean. Thomas Jefferson's refusal to continue paying tribute led to the First Barbary War. William Bainbridge, 1774  1833. Commodore in the United States Navy. From The History of Our Country, published 1905.

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