Documents and facts illustrating the origin of the mission to Japan, authorized by government of the United States, May 10th, 1851
Subtitle: and which finally resulted in the treaty concluded by Commodore M.C. Perry, U.S. Navy, with the Japanese Commissioners at Kanagawa, Bay of Yedo, on the 31st March 1854 ; to which is appended a list of the memoirs, &c., prepared and submitted to the Hon. John P. Kennedy, late Secretary of the Navy, by his order, on the 26th February, 1853, for the use of the projected U.S. exploring expedition to Behring's Strait, &c., under the command of Commander Cadwallader Ringold, U.S. Navy
By: by Aaron Haight Palmer
Contributors: Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870; University of California, San Diego. University Library
Publisher: H. Polkinhorn, printer
Published: 1857
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Foreign relations; Discovery and exploration; United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854); United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition (1853-1856)
Other titles: Origin of the mission to Japan; China, America and the Pacific.
Notes: Library, University of California, San Diego

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