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  2. Matthew C. Perry - Wikipedia

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    Matthew C. Perry. Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was an United States Navy officer who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War. He played a leading role in the Perry Expedition that ended Japan's isolationism and the Convention of Kanagawa between Japan and the United ...

  3. Perry Expedition - Wikipedia

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    The Perry Expedition ( Japanese: 黒船来航, kurofune raikō, "Arrival of the Black Ships ") was a diplomatic and military expedition in two separate voyages (1852–1853 and 1854–1855) to the Tokugawa shogunate (徳川幕府) by warships of the United States Naval corps. The goals of this expedition included exploration, surveying, and the ...

  4. Black Ships - Wikipedia

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    Black Ships. Japanese print from 1854 describing Commodore Matthew Perry 's "Black Ships". The Black Ships (in Japanese: 黒船, romanized : kurofune, Edo period term) were the names given to both Portuguese merchant ships and American warships arriving in Japan in the 16th and 19th centuries respectively. In 1543, Portuguese initiated the ...

  5. Perry family - Wikipedia

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    The Perry family is an American naval and political dynasty from Rhode Island whose members have included several United States naval commanders, naval aviators, politicians, artists, clergymen, lawyers, physicians, and socialites. Progeny of a mid-17th-century English immigrant to South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the Perry family patriarch ...

  6. Bakumatsu - Wikipedia

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    Commodore Matthew C. Perry. When Commodore Matthew C. Perry's four-ship squadron appeared in Edo Bay (Tokyo Bay) in July 1853, the shogunate was thrown into turmoil. Commodore Perry was fully prepared for hostilities if his negotiations with the Japanese failed, and threatened to open fire if the Japanese refused to negotiate.

  7. Timeline of Japan–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    July 8: The Perry Expedition, led by naval officer Commodore Matthew C. Perry, arrives in Japan with a fleet of four Black Ships. Perry demands the opening of Japanese ports to American trade and presents a letter from President Millard Fillmore to Japan's emperor, Osahito , urging him to establish commercial and diplomatic relations with the ...

  8. Convention of Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    The Convention of Kanagawa, also known as the Kanagawa Treaty ( 神奈川条約, Kanagawa Jōyaku) or the Japan–US Treaty of Peace and Amity ( 日米和親条約, Nichibei Washin Jōyaku ), was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa Shogunate on March 31, 1854. Signed under threat of force, [ 2] it effectively meant the ...

  9. First Battle of Tabasco - Wikipedia

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    : 118 However, at night, Perry recalled his landing party and Traconis's forces returned to the city, barricading themselves inside buildings.: 118 Traconis received a delegation of U.S. Marines who requested their surrender, but responded "Tell Commodore Perry that I would sooner die with my garrison before handing over this place."