• @ramble81@lemm.ee
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    473 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.

    • Patapon Enjoyer
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      63 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

      • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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        43 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

    • @vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      33 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.