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"Old Bruin" Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry
Author: Samuel Eliot Morison

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Publisher: Atlantic Little, Brown
Book Type: Hardcover
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ISBN-13: 213760 - ISBN-10:
Publication Date: 1967
Pages: 482

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"Old Bruin" The Life of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry 1794-1858. The American officer who helped found Liberia, hunted pirates in the West Indies, practiced 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.


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