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Named Yamagata Aritomo, so tall and as the "crane," his teeth, brave samu- with their antiquated weapons, even virtually defenseless against nineteen-year-old samurai many He was became the general who modernized Japan's army throughout years of victorious yet chivalrous warfare. S. Marine Corps band blared out Commodore Matthew C. from the USS Susquehanna in "Hail Columbia," Perry, rowed ashore his known as Old Matt, most elaborate uniform THE CRUCIBLE OF CONFLICT • 39 tion of the sacred palace and parks, and due measure in large to the shrewd intervention of Count Ignatyev, the prince agreed to Anglo-French terms rather than face the total destruction sure to follow and Britain shared a £24 million indemnity, Tientsin eign trade and residence, Britain received the won France win new to for- Peninsula, and own church property advantage of allied domina- full territorial concessions for Russia border.
Up a mile-long telegraph line and quickly assembled tracks for a small steam engine capable of going twenty-five miles per hour while pulling some forty passengers in a modern pullman The car. THE CRUCIBLE OF CONFLICT • 41 Japanese were suitably impressed, but one young man, a careful notetaker, was able to assemble such an engine himself only a year Perry was promptly followed by a Russian Putilov was far more acceptance; then, all skillful later. 46 whose Admiral fleet, than the Americans in winning Japanese too soon for the Japanese, the British landed as well.
Many Chinese out of the question, though prominent some 4,000 The Manchus Its ignorance of British and European law was did not understand the consequences of agree- ing to a fixed tariff or of extraterritoriality, both of which they readily accepted. The fixed tariff would greatly limit future Chinese income; granting the Europeans the right to govern themselves on Chinese 28 • WARRIORS OF THE RISING SUN soil opened the door surprising to —even even greater concessions. But none of most sophisticated Chinese, the like this should be Commissioner Lin, was believed that the British could not live without tea or rhubarb.
