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James Biddle was a United States Navy Commodore who sought to "open" Japan in [[1846]], prior to [[Commodore Perry]]. He arrived at [[Uraga]] Bay in July 1846 with two ships, the [[USS Columbus|USS ''Columbus'']] and [[USS Vincennes|USS ''Vincennes'']]. They spent seven days there before receiving a formal rejection from the [[Tokguawa shogunate]] of the request to see Japanese ports opened to American ships. Not desiring armed conflict, the two ships then departed.
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==References==
*Marco Tinello, "The termination of the Ryukyuan embassies to Edo : an investigation of the bakumatsu period through the lens of a tripartite power relationship and its world," PhD thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (2014), 133-134n241.
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