| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Table of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Gathering Storm -- Chapter 2. Firearms and Munitions -- Artillery -- Small Arms -- Marines -- Sailors -- Officers -- Korean Firearms -- Artillery -- Chapter 3. Edged Weapons -- United States -- Korea -- Chapter 4. Personnel -- Navy -- Key Personnel -- Korean Officers -- Korean Enlisted Personnel -- Chapter 5. Ships -- Ships -- Chapter 6. Ship Routines -- Everyday Life Aboard Ship -- Daily Routines -- Health and Medicine -- Discipline -- Chapter 7. Fortresses -- Fortresses -- Jinbo -- Dondae -- Chapter 8. Research Surveys -- 1. First Survey -- 2. Second Survey -- 3. Third Survey -- 4. Fourth Survey -- 5. Fifth Survey -- 6. Sixth Survey -- Chapter 9. The Battle Begins -- Day 1. June 10 -- Day 2. June 11 -- Prelude to the Attack on the Sondolmok Fort -- The Attack -- Postlude of the Attack -- Day 3. June 12 -- Chapter 10. Epilogue -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Key US Personnel -- United States Officers -- United States Enlisted Personnel -- Civilian Personnel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Korean Resources -- Online and Digital Resources -- Index |
| Summary |
In 1871, five ships of the United States Asiatic Fleet headed into Korean waters, intent on establishing relations with Korea, a country that had shunned the outside world for centuries. However, as the country had been in conflict with Western countries just five years earlier, it was going to be no easy task but one full of dangers. The Koreans, who were steadfast and unwilling to compromise the safety of their country, saw the people of the "Flowery Flag Country" as interlopers coming to cause trouble like those before them. No matter what it took, they would resist to the last man. No quar |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- Korea
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Korea -- Foreign relations -- United States
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| Subject |
Korea
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781624121371 |
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1624121373 |
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