Word: kurihama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his famous phrase, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," after his defeat of the British squadron on Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. His distinguished brother performed an even greater act when on July 7, 1853, Matthew Calbraith Perry entered in his flagship, the Mississippi, Kurihama in the Bay of Yeddo in Japan, opening that great nation to western com merce...
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