"Old Bruin"; Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858.

By: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976Material type: TextTextReference number:6556486Publication details: Boston, Little, Brown, c1967. Edition: 1st edDescription: xxii, 482 p. illus., maps, ports. 24 cmSubject(s): Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 | United States -- History, NavalLOC classification: E182 | .P466
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"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

Bibliography: p. [451]-465.

"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 during the Mexican War, promoted the steam navy and the shell gun, and conducted the naval expedition which opened Japan"

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