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Topic: Leonce Verny

	Léonce Verny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Léonce Verny was born in Pont d'Aubenas, Ardèche, central France.
		Léonce Verny was sent to Ning-Po in China in 1862 to supervise the construction of four gunboats for the Chinese Navy, as well as a shipyard.
		Besides the construction of the Yokosuka arsenal, Verny also worked on the establishment of lighthouses throughout the Tokyo area (some of them are still visible, such as the Jogashima and the Kannonzaki lighthouses), and the building of the shipyard at Nagasaki, with the largest hauling facility in Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonce_Verny (631 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		Oguri’s and Verny’s promises were built to last, as their bronze faces look out over their 1865 shipyard that is still used today as a part of the Yokosuka Naval Base.
		But steel would come to Japan in the wake of Verny and the shipbuilding project assigned to him by Oguri, a finance magistrate of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
		Verny chose Yokosuka after three months of looking at maps and number crunching.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=33010 (520 words)

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		Following the humiliations at the hands of foreign navies in the Bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863, and the Battle of Shimonoseki in 1864, the Shogunate stepped up efforts to modernize, relying more and more on French and British assistance.
		In 1865, the French naval engineer Léonce Verny was hired to build Japan's first modern naval arsenals, at Yokosuka and Nagasaki.
		More ships were imported, such as the Jho Sho Maru, the Ho Sho Maru and the Kagoshima, all built by Thomas Blake Glover in Aberdeen.
	www.warcraftworld.info /?title=Naval_history_of_Japan (5377 words)

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		According to a Stars and Stripes report, the two men were honored in a recent Yokosuka ceremony.
		Statues of Oguri and Verny look out over the 1865 shipyard that is still used today as a part of the Yokosuka Naval Base.
		The shipyard — a collaboration of a 28-year-old naval engineer from France and a finance magistrate — brought Yokosuka, and consequently Japan, into the industrial age, said the report.
	www.marinelink.com /pda/PdaStory.aspx?StoryID=200928 (141 words)

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