![]() ![]() Very few are left of those who witnessed them. ![]() The scenes I am to record are now only reminiscences, and fast fading from the memories of men. So entire is the transformation that the Japan of forty years ago is forever past and gone. The morning of a Christian civilization is pouring new light over mountain and plain. Rather, it is a group of Emerald Isles, on the far-off edge of oriental continents a land which its inhabitants call the "Empire of the Rising Sun." Its sun is rising fast. Manifest destiny and imperialism are not mentioned in the Official Narrative of the Perry Expedition, but "Invincible Armada" provides a blunt illustration of this American motivation.ĪRTICLE 10.-THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA IN JAPAN. "The Invincible Armada in Japan" puts forward the idea of manifest destiny that propelled the nineteenth century imperialism of the United States. In this article, written over thirty years after the Perry Expedition, Sewall reflected on the political meaning of the great event in which he had taken part. Sewall, "The Invincible Armada in Japan," New Englander and Yale ![]()
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