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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.
An oil painting of Lt. Stephen Decatur boarding a Tripolitan gunboat during the bombardment of Tripoli, Aug. 3, 1804. (Department of the Navy) The U.S.S. Philadelphia, previously captured by the Tripolitans, set ablaze after being boarded by Lt. Stephen Decatur and 60 men. Lt. Presley O'Bannon in battle at Derna, in modern-day Libya, 1805. Ask most Americans about the details of the Barbary wars, and youâre likely to get blank stares. But the obscure, early 19th century wars between the newly established United States and a group of north African powers has become evidence for a chain email that lectures about the present-day dangers of radical Islam.