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He intends calling Uraga to account; but not by the honourable action of a duel, but in a court of justice, if such can be found in New
The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850
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Commodore Matthew Perry fired on the port of Uraga, near present-day Tokyo, to force the opening of trade with America.
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While one biographer dances around the subject (citing a source who claimed he knew but was afraid to tell), the historian Jesús Romero Flores flatly states that Ocampo's father was Antonio Maria Uraga, parish priest of Maravatio, Michoacán.
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While one biographer dances around the subject (citing a source who claimed he knew but was afraid to tell), the historian Jesús Romero Flores flatly states that Ocampo's father was Antonio Maria Uraga, parish priest of Maravatio, Michoacán.
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Commodore Matthew Perry fired on the port of Uraga, near present-day Tokyo, to force the opening of trade with America.
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PERRY, with four ships, anchored off Uraga in Edo Bay and remained for ten days, delivering a letter from the U.S. president, which was referred to the emperor and the feudal lords.
1837-53 2001
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Mr. President, ever since the appearance of the four American black ships off the coast of Uraga, Japan, in 1853, Japan-U.S. relations have seen sunny, cloudy and some stormy days.
Remarks By The President At Prime Minister Obuchi Dinner ITY National Archives 1999
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Looming over them all was the gray steel mountain of the U.S.S. Jefferson, just around the headland at Uraga on her way to the anchorage.
Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991
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There was no fear in him, no sorrow, only an image of Japan, of a rocky seashore outside Uraga with its ramshackle houses, the pure white sails of the fishing boats as they set sail against the red and yellow sunrise.
The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980
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He thought of Uraga where the ships of Admiral Perry had docked in 1853, ending two hundred and fifty years of Japanese isolationism.
The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980
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