British Tartar (screw corvette), 20 guns.
Barrosa (screw corvette), 22 guns.
Leopard (paddle frigate), 18 guns.
Conqueror (two-decker), 101 guns.
Euryalus (screw frigate), 51 guns.
Perseus, 4 guns.
Bouncer (screw gunboat), 4 guns.
Coquette (screw gunboat), 4 guns.
Argus (paddle sloop), 6 guns.
French Dupleix (screw corvette), 24 guns.
Sémiramis (frigate), 36 guns.
Tancrède (gunboat), 4 guns.
Dutch Amsterdam.
Djambi.
Metal Cruyis.
Medusa (frigate), 36 guns.
United States Takiang, no guns.
The United States ship was merely chartered to indicate American
interest; all American vessels were then busy sinking each other in the
civil war.
This fleet left Yokohama on August 28, 1864, and from September 5th
to 9th it bombarded all the new forts that the Daimio had erected. At
the end of that time Shimonoseki surrendered unconditionally, and an
indemnity of three million dollars was claimed from the Shogun, and
eventually paid.
For the next two years the Shogun’s Government was busy trying
conclusions with the Daimio, but as he had raised a large force of the
common people, and drilled these in Western fashion, he easily held his
own. British and French troops meanwhile were permanently stationed at
Yokohama to guard foreign interests. Friction between these and the
_Jo-i_ party was common, and more than one assassination took place,
but no naval demonstrations followed.
[Illustration: [_By a Japanese artist._