Augustus Kuper
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Admiral Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper was a Royal Navy officer known for his commands in East Asia.
Franco-Anglo-Japanese conference on the Semiramis, 2 July 1863. Forefront: French interpreter Frederik Blekman, Japanese interpreter. Background (from left to right): Three Japanese governors of Yokohama, Duchesne de Bellecourt, daimyō Sakai-Hida-no-Kami, Colonel Neale (British representative in Japan), Admiral Jaurès, Admiral Kuper
Shimonoseki campaign
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The Shimonoseki campaign was a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control the Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from the United Kingdom, France, the Netherland
Augustus Kuper
…was his second-in-command, Commander Wilmot, both decapitated by the same cannonball. In 1864 Kuper was in command of the International fleet at the Shimonoseki Expedition, Japan, the action fought to reopen the Inland Sea and the Straits of Shimonoseki. His interpreter at Shimonoseki was Ernest Satow. Kuper was made a Knight…
Capture of a Choshu battery at Shimonoseki by British sailors and marines; picture taken by Felice Beato
The Medusa forces its way through the Shimonoseki strait, by Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest
The USS Wyoming battling in the Shimonoseki Straits against the Choshu steam warships Daniel Webster, Lanrick and Lancefield
The French engagement at Shimonoseki, with the warships Tancrède and Sémiramis, under Rear Admiral Charles Jaurès. Le Monde illustré, October 10th, 1863.