Contact Admin. Articles you should have read but missed the first time aroundβ The complicated and tragic story between America and Korea goes farther into the past than many would have assumedβ¦. The history of U. Five years earlier, in July , a U. Protestant missionary, Robert Thomas, attempted to penetrate Korean waterways in pursuit of trade discussions and Christian evangelization.
Denied permission to sail up the Taedong River leading to Pyongyang, the ship defied Korean authorities. Consequently, after four days of fighting, the ship was burned, and the 20 persons aboard killed.
In retaliation, the U. The Koreans again resisted. In all of the Nineteenth Century, this was the largest U. This intervention created heightened anxieties among the Japanese about aggressive U.
Beato was living in Yokohama, Japan at the time, and already was one of the most famous photographers in the world. Together with his assistant, Mr. Woollett, he took graphic pictures of the fighting at the Kanghwa beach area.
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