Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Rising through the ranks from midshipman to commodore, Matthew C. Perry laid the foundation for a professionally ...

1813 - During the War of 1812, Lt. John M. Gamble becomes the first Marine to command a ship in battle, USS Greenwich, when she captures British whaling ship Seringapatam. 1853 - Commodore Matthew C.

One fine morning in 1858, a sweet infant boy, Gosuke Katakura, was born in the ancient empire of Japan. In that same year because a New Englander, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, had burst into the ...