Sentence examples for with gunboat from inspiring English sources

After Commodore Matthew Perry opened up shogun Japan with gunboat diplomacy in 1853, the sleepy fishing village of Yokohama became a foreign settlement, epitomizing the determination of Emperor Meiji, a Japanese version of Peter the Great, to import and emulate Western ideas.

Yemeni officials said on Wednesday that they would enforce a 500-yard no-entry raroundaround tankers loading at Ash Shihr, its southern port, and would patrol the area with gunboats and helicopters.

The British returned in the 1830s with gunboats to force trade open, and China's attempts at reform ended in collapse, humiliation and, eventually, Maoism.China has made an extraordinary journey along the road back to greatness.

At one point, when Mr. Romney complained that the Navy "is smaller now than any time since 1917," Mr. Obama pounced and noted that the comparison works only if aircraft carriers are equated with gunboats.

In 2011, more than 5,000 Palestinians fled the city of Latakia after Assad's forces attacked the camp with gunboats and ground troops in an effort to crackdown on dissenting factions. .

He then suffered a shrapnel wound to the throat, which forced him to give orders in writing -- including one, with the gunboat gravely damaged, to abandon ship.

It neatly combined the city-building tranquillity of The Settlers with the gunboat diplomacy of Age of Empires to make a deep and absorbing game.

After arriving in Trinidade, she rendezvoused with the gunboat and several steamers.

There, she cruised with the gunboat in March and early April.

In concert with the gunboat, Condor participated in the suppression of unrest in the Marshall Islands in September and October 1908.

After spending seventeen days in captivity the dog apparently escaped by an open window and joined with a gunboat crew.