Commodore Matthew ... Oliver Hazard Perry, who famously defeated the British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812—but that was about to change. In July 1853, the American ...

Matthew Calbraith Perry plans to visit a far-flung ... to Uraga at the entrance to Tokyo Bay in 1853 and played a key role in opening Japan to the West after a national isolation policy of more ...

was presented with a replica of the Stars and Stripes flag that his ancestor received from Matthew Perry (1794-1858), commodore of the U.S. Navy who visited the island in 1853. The original flag ...