A descendant of Commodore Matthew C. Perry of “Black Ships” fame ... The bottom of the gold case is inscribed “Japan 1852,” marking the year his namesake ancestor left the United ...
Matthew Calbraith Perry plans ... The commodore led his fleet of “Black Ships” to Uraga at the entrance to Tokyo Bay in 1853 and played a key role in opening Japan to the West after a national ...
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