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McDougal’s Bold Straits of Shimonoseki Naval Feat
In 1863 Commander David Stockton McDougal steered the Wyoming through the Shimonoseki Straits facing Japanese batteries and three hostile ships. He sank two vessels and silenced shore guns, earning praise from Theodore Roosevelt and becoming a legendary Civil War sea captain. The piece contrasts his feat with Commodore Perry’s diplomacy opening Japan in 1854.
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David Stockton McDougal
Straits of Shimonoseki
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union
United States
Asiatic
McDougal
Orient
Mikado
Japan
Straits
Straits of
Shimonoseki
Theodore Roosevelt
Navy
North
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Navy Department
Ohio
Mare Island Navy Yard
Powhatan
Charles J. McDougal
Cape Mendocino
Calif
San Francisco
Matthew Calbraith Perry
Spain
Oliver Hazard Perry
Lake Erie
Matthew Perry
New England
China
Perry
Daniel Webster
Webster
Commodore Perry
Yeddo
Tokyo
Shimada
Idzu
Hakodate
Yezo