Sinmiyangyo : the 1871 conflict between the United States and Korea / Thomas Duvernay, PhD
Thomas Duvernay (Author)
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
eBook, English, 2020
Seoul Selection, Irvine, CA, 2020