"Old Bruin" : Commodore Matthew Calbraith 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 shell gun, and conducted the naval expedition which opened Japan / by Samuel Eliot Morison.
- Title:
- "Old Bruin" : Commodore Matthew Calbraith 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 shell gun, and conducted the naval expedition which opened Japan / by Samuel Eliot Morison.
- Author:
- Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.
- Call Number:
- 920 P464m
- Publication Information:
- Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown & Co., c1967.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 482 p. : ill., maps, ports ; 24 cm.
- Language:
- English.
- Subjects:
- Mexican War, 1846-1848.
- Locations:
- United States Foreign relations.
- Organizations:
- Liberia.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase; April 16, 1968;
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