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"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 / by Samuel Eliot Morison.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858.
- Perry, Matthew Calbraith.
- United States. Navy--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Navy.
- United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854).
- United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)--Personal narratives.
- United States Naval Expedition to Japan.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Other Title:
- Old Bruin Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, [1967]
- Contents:
- The peaceful Perrys, 1939-1775
- Captain Christopher, the first fighting Perry, 1777-1795
- Christopher, Oliver, and the General Greene, 1795-1801
- Preliminaries to the War of 1812, 1809-1812
- The second war with Great Britain, 1812-1815
- Family affairs and first Mediterranean cruise, 1814-1819
- Founding Liberia, 1817-1823
- 'Old Bruin' hunts pirates in the West Indies, 1822-1823
- First Lieutenant of North Carolina, 1824-1828
- Commanding U.S.S. Concord, 1830-1832
- Navy Reformer, 1833-1842
- The Somers Mutiny, 1842-1843
- Commodore of the Africa Squadron, 1843-1845
- Mexican War opens, 1845-1846
- VIce Commodore Perry, 1846-1847
- Commodore Perry of the Gulf Squadron, 1847-1848
- Second Tabasco, Yellow Fever, and guerrillas, 1847-1848
- Yucatan complexities, 1847-1848
- Four years' shore duty, 1848-1852
- Isolated Japan, 1600-1851
- Organizing the Japan expedition, 1851-1852
- Bound away, November 1852-May 1853
- Loo Choo and Bonins, May-July 1853
- First visit to Japan, 8-17 July 1853
- China interlude, July 1853-February 1854
- Negotiating the treaty, February-March 1854
- Ports and islands, 18 April- 11 September 1854
- Conclusion of the Japan expedition, 1854-1855
- Home port, 1854-1858
- Epilogue
- Appendix: The Perry family.
- Notes:
- "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
- "Atlantic-Little Brown Books are published by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [451]-465) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976. "Old Bruin": Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858.
- OCLC:
- 6556486
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