NOUN
- United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819)
How To Use Commodore Perry In A Sentence
- Isolation till Commodore Perry appears and ( indirectly ) precipitates the Meiji restoration.
- Yokohama, a poor fishing village when Commodore Perry landed there in 1853, has become the second largest city in Japan, rivalling Tokyo as a port, and it would like to be seen as something more than an industrial appendage of the capital.
