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A Letter From the President of the United States of America
millard filmore commodore perry had been tasked with taking that letter and his four ships to a mountainous island chain off the coast of mainland asia. At this time in the mid nineteenth century, the world was rapidly changing. Widespread industrialization and meteoric technological advances had catapulted the seafaring capabilities of western nations into the stratosphere. The last time a foreign power had tried to strong arm its way into japan, it had been soundly repelled. Even kublai khan himself could not manage to bend this scrappy archipelago to his will.
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