Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan

The Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan: performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the Government of the United States is a printed history, in 3 volumes, of the Perry Expedition, written by Francis L. Hawks, under the supervision of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, and using the written materials compiled by Perry and his colleagues on the expedition.[1] The series was first presented as a report to the United States Senate, then published commercially, in 1856.

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  1. James C. Bradford (January 2013). Captains of the Old Steam Navy: Makers of the American Naval Tradition 1840-1880. Naval Institute Press. p. 25 note 22. ISBN 978-1-59114-054-2.

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