The First Opium War wasn’t just about drugs it was about trade, empire, and clashing worldviews. This video explores why Britain went to war with China in 1839, using opium as leverage to force open ...
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China tried to stop opium - then got invaded instead
The First Opium War began as a trade dispute, but it quickly exposed a deeper power struggle between Britain and Qing China.
The Opium War, 1840-1842 : barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the early part of the nineteenth century and the war by which they forced her gates ajar / by Peter Ward Fay Smithsonian Libraries and ...
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