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	Matthew Perry (naval officer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854, under the threat of military force.
		Matthew Perry obtained a midshipman's commission in the Navy in 1809, and was initially assigned to Revenge, under the command of his elder brother.
		Perry's early career saw him assigned to several different ships, including the President, where he was aide to Commodore John Rodgers, which was in a victorious engagement over a British vessel, HMS Little Belt, shortly before the War of 1812 was officially declared.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_C._Perry (1222 words)

	Private Passions, Public Legacy: Opening New Vistas
		Perry's mission was to persuade Japan to end its policy of isolation and open its doors to trade and diplomatic relations with the U.S. Perry was instructed to use force if necessary to coerce the Japanese into an agreement.
		Perry and Heine continued the tradition of the illustrated travel account established by explorer-artist pairs like Thomas Hariot and John White (see "Exploring the New World" section in exhibition) and Maximilian of Wied and Karl Bodmer (see "Expanding Westward").
		Perry's ships were met by a Japanese delegation that asked Perry to remain in the bay while they reported Perry's request for a treaty to the ruling shogun in Edo.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/mellon/newVistas.html (838 words)

	ipedia.com: Matthew Perry (naval officer) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Matthew Calbraith Perry was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854, under the threat of military force.
		Matthew Perry obtained a midshipman's commission in the Navy in 1809, and was initially assigned to USS Revenge, which was under the command of his elder brother.
		Perry commanded USS Shark from 1821-1825, and from 1826-1827 acted as fleet captain for Commodore Rodgers.
	www.ipedia.com /matthew_perry__naval_officer_.html (775 words)

	Vintage Textile: Edwardian Clothing-Commodore Perry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Commodore Matthew C. Perry, commander of the United States naval forces in the China seas, was a staunch expansionist.
		The Japanese were informed that Commodore Perry carried a letter from the President of the United States to the Emperor of Japan.
		Perry impressed the Japanese officials with his diplomacy and with the technological superiority of his ships and weapons.
	www.vintagetextile.com /new_page_11.htm (379 words)

	Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry
		On board the Susquehanna, Commodore Perry's aide, Lieutenant Contee, informed the official that the Commodore carried a letter from the President of the United States to the Emperor of Japan.
		Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858), American naval officer, who commanded the expedition that established United States relations with Japan.
		In 1853 Perry was sent on the mission to Japan, a country that had been closed to outsiders since the 17th century.
	members.tripod.com /~MickMc/perry.html (1432 words)

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		This printed version of the Perry journal includes numerous illustrations in both color and fl and white—including lithographs that did not appear in the official Narrative and a small selection of Japanese graphics.
		Williams, an American missionary based in China, accompanied Perry as “first interpreter of the expedition.” This lengthy published version of his journal was edited by his son.
		Many exchanges between Perry and the Japanese side are given in the form of direct quotations.
	blackshipsandsamurai.com /coreexhibit/vc_sources.htm (1559 words)

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		Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Thomson: Bibliography.
		Scholars conjecture that it was written for the church at Antioch toward the end of the 1st cent.
		Matthew, Saint, in the New Testament, one of the Twelve Disciples.
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	Encyclopedia: Matthew Perry (naval officer) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Image File history File links Matthew perry from a TV show Friends File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
		On March 31, 1854, the Convention of Kanagawa (Japanese: 神奈川条約, Kanagawa Jōyaku, or 日米和親条約, Nichibei Washin Jōyaku) was used by Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy to force the opening of the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and ended Japans 200 year policy...
		Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (August 23, 1785 â€“ August 23, 1819) was an officer in the United States Navy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Matthew-Perry-(naval-officer) (3972 words)

	Biographical information - Matthew Calbraith Perry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A member of one of the most illustrious American naval families, young Matthew went to sea in 1809 at age 15, under the command of his older brother, Oliver Hazard Perry.
		Perry gained a reputation for taking great effort to insure the health of his crew but also for enforcing strict discipline.
		Following the war, Perry devoted much of his time ashore promoting reforms for training naval officers and for expanding the Navy's use of steam power.
	www.du.edu /~ttyler/ploughboy/perrybiography.htm (258 words)

	Gil Asakawa's Nikkei View (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Matthew Calbraith Perry was born in 1794, and died before the Civil War broke out.
		Perry was an advocate of US expansion in the Pacific, in reaction to the growing power of the British in colonizing much of South and East Asia.
		Perry returned from China to Japan in February, 1854, this time with seven ships and 1600 men, and on March 31 forced the Shogunate government to sign the Treaty of Kanagawa agreeing to the terms laid out by Fillmore.
	nikkeiview.com /archives03/041403.htm (1256 words)

	Matthew Calbraith Perry
		Perry saw little action in that war because he was assigned to the
		Perry was ordered (Mar., 1852) to command the East India squadron and charged with the delicate task of penetrating isolationist Japan.
		Perry's show of pomp (at which he was expert) and power obviously impressed the insecure Tokugawa shogunate, and on Mar. 31, 1854, near Yokohama a treaty was concluded that acceded to American requests, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to U.S. trade.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0838494.html (437 words)

	Commodore Matthew Perry's Visit to the Bonin Islands, June 1853
		C H A P T E R X. The Bonin Islands, lying in the Japanese sea, extend in a direction nearly north and south, between latitudes of 26° 30' and 27° 45' north, the centre line of the group being in longitude about 142° 15' east.
		Commodore Perry left on shore on the north side of Peel Island, with a view to their increase, two bulls and two cows, and on North Island five Shanghai broad-tailed sheep, of which two were rams, and six goats.
		It is situated on the northern side of the bay, near its head, with a front on the water of 1,000 yards and a good depth near the shore for the length of 500 yards, it might, by the building of a pier extending out fifty feet, be conveniently approached by the largest vessel afloat.
	www.du.edu /~ttyler/ploughboy/perrybonins.htm (8115 words)

	Commodore M.C. Perry's dwarf tree observations
		Perry arrived in the U.S. in the middle of January, 1855 to much congratulations and, perhaps, over-optimistic celebration of the new trading partner.
		It should be noted that even before Perry's first appearance, the Japanese who had favored opening the door to the outside world had grown almost as influential in the capital as the reactionaries who clung to the old ways.
		Perry first stopped at the Ryukyu or Loochoo ("Lew Chews") Islands since they were a dependency of Japan and Perry might get a hint there of how he would be received on the mainland.
	www.phoenixbonsai.com /1800Refs/Perry.html (1353 words)

	Fact Sheet: Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1843-1844, Perry commanded the African Squadron, which was engaged in suppressing the slave trade.
		In July of that same year, Perry leads a squadron of four ships into Tokyo Bay and presented representatives of the Japanese Emperor with the text of a proposed commercial and friendship treaty.
		After a standoff, Perry landed for peace and trade talks on March 8, 1854, and began to negotiate with the Japanese to establish a trade agreement.
	www.history.navy.mil /branches/teach/pearl/kanagawa/friends4.htm (282 words)

	UWM Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Perry may be best known to many as the naval officer who lead an expedition to Japan in 1853 and negotiated the signing of the treaty that established formal diplomatic relations between the U.S. and that country.
		Praised by academics and historians, it reveals Perry to be a naval reformer, a technological innovator, and a proponent of top quality military training and education.
		Schroeder does not gloss over perhaps less attractive aspects of Perry's personality and service, writing that "his expectations that his officers and men would execute their responsibilities to the same rigorous standards he had set for himself did not win him popularity.
	www.uwm.edu /News/PR/01.04/HJS_Perry.html (400 words)

	Steamship Types
		Commodore Perry has became known as the father of the steam Navy because of his strong commitment to introducing steam ships in to the Navy.
		Perry initially delivered President Fillmore's request for a treaty to a representative of the Japanese emperor in July 1853.
		Perry returned with a larger force in 1854, arriving in Edo (Tokyo) Bay, and obtained the signature of Japanese authorities to the Treaty of Kanagawa on 31 March 1854.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/steam1.htm (3936 words)

	C Perry - new and used books
		Fascinating account of the legendary journey by Perry and his fleet, which culminated in their daring arrival at Edo Bay in Japan and the subsequent signing of a treaty.
		Perry was a San Jacinto Veteran and died in 1898 in Blanco County.
		Perry, C. Austin, Texas: Jenkins Publishing Co. 1990 33pp., frontis portrait, footnotes, original printed wrappers, 8vo.
	www.isbn.pl /A-c-perry (1222 words)

	1800perry
		Perry’s purpose in sounding the channel to Edo was so that, in case no proper person was sent to receive the President’s letter, he could land close to the Shogunal capitol and deliver it himself under cover of the ships’ guns.
		Perry was set on Edo; this the Japanese utterly refused, repeatedly suggesting various ports which the Commodore found equally impossible due to their lack of shelter.
		Perry's small squadron itself was not enough to force the massive changes that then took place in Japan, but the Japanese knew that his ships were just the beginning of Western interest in their islands.
	www.navyandmarine.org /ondeck/1800perryjapan.htm (9619 words)

	Roundabout Theatre Company - Front & Center Online
		To protect and buttress the fast-growing, industrializing American economy, Perry reasoned, the U.S. ought to open "ports of refuge" in Japan, a country that had barricaded itself from the globe since 1639.
		PERRY carrying the 'GOSPEL of GOD' to the HEATHEN, 1853" right on the front of it, Japanese representations are fewer and more emotional, angry depictions of fright.
		Perry’s "fl ships," in the end, seem to hang in the air, a toxic haze of moral unease.
	www.roundabouttheatre.org /fc/fall04/po.htm (1095 words)

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		Commodore Perry's reply Agreed to; but one or more ports must be substituted for Nagasaki, as that is out of the route of American commerce; and the time for the opening of the ports to be agreed upon must be immediate or within a space of sixty days.
		Commodore Perry's reply Agreed to excepting as to the port to which the shipwrecked men are to be carried.
		Commodore Perry's reply Shipwrecked men and others who may resort to the ports of Japan, are not to be confined, and shall enjoy all the freedom granted to Japanese, and be subject to no further restraints.
	dl.lib.brown.edu /japan/perryjournal.html (7083 words)

	Black Ships & Samurai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is an exceptionally detailed website compiled by George C. Baxley, stamp and book seller, and constantly updated: “These web pages are devoted to books, literature and lithographs pertaining to the 1852-4 US Expedition to Japan and the China Seas by Commodore Matthew C. Perry.
		Most of the graphics pertaining to the Perry mission are in the public domain.
		We are particularly indebted to Daiei Matsui, the abbot of Ryosenji Temple in Shimoda, who made the holdings of his temple’s exceptional “Kurofune Art Collection” available at a formative moment in the conceptualization and design of this website.
	blackshipsandsamurai.com /compsite/core_sources.html (2097 words)

	Images, Signature and Handwriting of Commodore Matthew C. Perry
		Images of Commodore Perry in the lithographs of the Narrative of the Expedition to Japan are rather limited.
		Statue of Commodore Perry, Newport, RI The statute shown below is of Commodore M.C. Perry and was dedicated September 10, 1885.
		Perry resided in lower New York from 1833 to 1841 where he served as the commander of the New York recruiting station.
	www.baxleystamps.com /litho/perry_images.shtml (1018 words)

	Matthew C. Perry
		In 1854 Perry persuaded the Japanese government to open its closed society to foreign trade.
		In 1853 United States Commodore Matthew Perry and his entourage met with Japan’s royal commissioner in Yokohama, Japan.
		With a fleet of American gunships docked in the harbor, Perry presented the Japanese with a trade and friendship treaty.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /navelm/leaders/perry.asp (326 words)

	Matthew C. Perry -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The treaty was signed as a result of pressure from U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry, who sailed into Tokyo Bay with a fleet of warships in July 1853 and...
		Matthew C. Perry sailed a fleet of gunships into Edo (now Tokyo); other Western nations followed U.S. and British...
		Commentary on Matthew by Origen, one of the Fathers of the early Christian church.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9059330?tocId=9059330 (788 words)

	JS Online: Perry's mission to Japan paved way to modern world
		Perry stopped short of firing on the Japanese, but he intimidated them by regularly exercising the squadron's guns and by taking his ships deep into Japanese territorial waters.
		His official instructions notwithstanding, Perry realized that the use of violence might coerce a treaty from the Japanese, but that it would also poison his efforts to create the foundation for a peaceful and lasting commercial relationship between the United States and Japan.
		Perry's expedition is now largely forgotten, but we would do well to remember his achievement.
	www.jsonline.com /news/editorials/jul03/154532.asp (888 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Commodore Matthew C. Perry, USN, of Newport, Rhode Island, negotiated the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa between the United States and the Edo Period Shogunate, which signified the beginning of Japanese-American relations.
		Rhode IslandÕs Commodore Matthew C. Perry, USN, was selected in 1852 to command an expedition to the Far East, and was given full diplomatic power to negotiate a treaty with Japan.
		Thus, Commodore PerryÕs mission and the Treaty of Kanagawa, were instrumental in opening Japan to the West.
	www.newportevents.com /Blackships/media/History-of-the-BSF-02.doc (487 words)

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