"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

Samuel Eliot Morison
Bok · Engelsk · 1968

Utgitt	London : Oxford University Press , 1968
Omfang	XXII, 482 s. : ill.
Opplysninger	Også utgitt: Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown & Co., c1967
Emner	Perry, Matthew Calbraith : (NO-TrBIB)90775690