William Henry Harrison Seeley, VC (1 May 1840 – 1 October 1914) was an American who fought with the British Royal Navy during the Shimonoseki Campaign in Japan and was a recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
 He was the first American-born recipient of the VC.
The Battle of the Baggage (Arabic: ﻳﻮﻡ ﺍلاﺛﻘﺎﻝ‎ ‎ , "Yawm al-athqāl") was fought between the forces of the Umayyad Caliphate and the Turkic Turgesh tribes in September/October 737.
 The Umayyads under the governor of Khurasan, Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri, had invaded the principality of Khuttal in Transoxiana, and the local ruler called upon the Turgesh for aid.
 The Umayyad army retreated in haste before the Turgesh arrived, managing to cross the Oxus river just in time, while their rearguard engaged the pursuing Turgesh.
 The Turgesh crossed immediately after, and attacked the exposed Muslim baggage train, which had been sent ahead, and captured it.
 The main Umayyad army came to the rescue of the baggage train's escort, which suffered heavy casualties.
 The failure of the Umayyad campaign meant the complete collapse of the Arab control in the Upper Oxus valley, and opened Khurasan itself to the Turgesh.
The Heart Truth is a campaign meant to raise awareness of the risk of heart disease in women.
 The campaign is sponsored in the United States by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, an organization of the United States Department of Health and Human Services; a similar campaign is promoted in Canada by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
 It focuses mainly on educating women aged forty to sixty, as that is the time when the risk of heart disease begins to increase.
The Constantinople Agreement (18 March 1915) was a set of secret assurances made by the Triple Entente during World War I.
 France and Great Britain promised to give Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and the Dardanelles (land on either coast in Thrace and Asia Minor), which at the time were part of the Ottoman Empire, to the Russians in the event of victory.
 The Greek government was neutral, but in 1915 it negotiated with the Allies, offering soldiers and especially a geographical launching point for attacks on the Straits.
 Greece itself wanted control of Constantinople.
 Russia vetoed the Greek proposal, because its main war goal was to control the Straits, and take control of Constantinople.
 The UK and France both agreed, while putting forward their own claims, to an increased sphere of influence in Iran in the case of the UK and to an annex of Syria (including Palestine) and Cilicia for France.
 The UK and French claims were both agreed all sides also agreeing that the exact governance of the Holy Places was to be left for later settlement.
The Battle of 'Auja, also called Battle of Nitzana, was a military engagement between the Israel Defense Forces and the Egyptian Army in and around 'Auja (today Nitzana), a small village on the Egypt–Israel border.
 It was fought on December 26–27, 1948, as part of Operation Horev, an Israeli campaign meant to expel all Egyptian forces from the country.
 The first stage of the operation was the simultaneous capture of 18 Egyptian positions on the Beersheba–'Auja road, including 7 around 'Auja.
The Battle of Shimonoseki Straits (Japanese:下関海戦, "Shimonoseki Kaisen") is a little-known naval engagement fought on July 16, 1863, by a warship of the United States Navy, the USS "Wyoming", against the powerful feudal Japanese daimyo Lord Mori Takachika of the Chōshū clan based in Shimonoseki.
The Shimonoseki Campaign (Japanese: 下関戦争/馬関戦争 , Hepburn: Shimonoseki Sensō/Bakan Sensō , lit.
 "Shimonoseki War") refers to a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off and on the coast of Shimonoseki, Japan.
Emperor Antoku (安徳天皇 "Antoku-tennō") (December 22, 1178 – April 25, 1185) was the 81st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
 His reign spanned the years from 1180 through 1185.
 During this time, the imperial family was involved in a bitter struggle between warring clans.
 Yoritomo, with his cousin Yoshinaka, led a force from the Minamoto clan against the Taira, who controlled the emperor.
 During the sea battle of Dan-no-ura in April 1185, Antoku's grandmother Taira no Tokiko took him and plunged with him into the water in the Shimonoseki Straits, drowning the child emperor rather than allowing him to be captured by the opposing forces.
 The conflict between the clans led to numerous legends and tales.
 Antoku's tomb is said to be located in a number of places around western Japan, including the island of
The first USS "Wyoming" of the United States Navy was a wooden-hulled screw sloop that fought on the Union side during the American Civil War.
 Sent to the Pacific Ocean to search for the CSS "Alabama", "Wyoming" eventually came upon the shores of Japan and engaged Japanese land and sea forces.
 On 16 July 1863, "Wyoming" won the first-ever United States naval victory over Japan in the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits.
The Battle of Awa (阿波沖海戦 , Awa oki kaisen ) occurred on 28 January 1868 during the Boshin War in Japan, in the area of Awa Bay near Osaka.
 Involving ships of the Tokugawa shogunate and Satsuma vessels loyal to the imperial court in Kyoto, the battle was the second naval battle in Japanese history between modern naval forces (after the 1863 Battle of Shimonoseki Straits).
 Enomoto Takeaki led the shogunal navy to victory at Awa, in one of the few Tokugawa successes of the Boshin War, one day after the start of the land Battle of Toba–Fushimi (which the shogunate lost to the Imperial forces).

Question: Which American fought in a campaign meant to take control of the Shimonoseki Straits?
Answer: William Henry Harrison Seeley