"Old Bruin": Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858: the American naval officer who helped found Liberia, hunted pirates in the West Indies, practised diplomacy with the Sultan of Turkey and the King of the Two Sicilies; commanded the Gulf Squadron in the Mexican War, promoted the steam navy and the shell gun , and conducted the naval expedition which opened Japan

• • Is type of work 

    Books

By

• • Has author 

    Morison, Samuel Eliot

Publisher

• Publication

  Boston: Little, Brown, [1967]

Is about

• Person

  • As subject 

    Perry, Matthew Calbraith

• Subject

  • As subject 

    staatkundige geschiedenis
  • As subject 

    militaire geschiedenis ter zee
  • As subject 

    marine
  • As subject 

    diplomat
  • As subject 

    vlagofficieren

• 1794-1858

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    English

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

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