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The year 2003 will mark the 150th anniversary of United States Navy Commodore Matthew Perry's first visit to Japan in July 1853, having been instructed by his government to 'open up' Japan by putting in place a treaty of 'peace and amity' with the Japanese 'mikado' for the benefit of western trade and commerce.he year 2003 will mark the 150th anniversary of United States Navy Commodore Matthew Perry's first visit to Japan in July 1853, having been instructed by his government to 'open up' Japan by putting in place a treaty of 'peace and amity' with the Japanese 'mikado' for the benefit of western trade and commerce.
The War of 1812. Stoking the Fires: The Impressment of Seaman Charles Davis by the U.S. Navy. British officers inspect a group of American sailors for impressment into the British navy, ca. 1810, in a drawing by Howard Pyle. The practice angered Americans and was one cause of the War of 1812. But American naval officers engaged in the same practice against British sailors.