• ramble81
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    7 months ago

    Wasn’t another one that Samurai, the telegraph and Lincoln were all alive in the same time period so you could have a Samurai send an electronic message to Lincoln.

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      7 months ago

      Well, yes, but I don’t think there were lines connecting the two.

      That said, Matthew Perry (not that one) had already reestablished relations with Japan during Lincoln’s time

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        7 months ago

        I mean the Samurai wasn’t fixed to Japan if the lines didn’t reach there. He could have made his way to America

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        7 months ago

        So Chandler sent a samurai a fax which was then forwarded to Lincoln?

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      7 months ago

      If memory serves me right there were exiled samurai in California and Mexico at the same time as the Mexican-American war so its entirely feasible to have them fighting during said war. Though as I understand they were pretty universally insular and mostly stuck to themselves.