Brown University Library. “Matthew Calbraith Perry.” Perry Visits Japan: A Visual History, n.d. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/japan/perrybio.html Gray, Asa, et. al ...

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Western businessmen trying to set up subsidiaries in Japan are sometimes reminded of the welcome that Commodore Perry got there in 1853. “Our policy,” whispered one wary Japanese at the time, “shall ...

WHEN U.S. Commodore M. C. Perry opened Japan to Western influence in 1853, he dealt a death blow in its own homeland to a waning but graceful and distinctively Japanese art—the woodblock print. But ...

1813 - During the War of 1812, Lt. John M. Gamble becomes the first Marine to command a ship in battle, USS Greenwich, when she captures British whaling ship Seringapatam. 1853 - Commodore Matthew C.

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