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- influence, resented by the Chinese. The Opium Wars rank among the most immoral ... ===The Opium Wars=== Following its ban on the opium trade of 1839, ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- *Beeching, Jack. 1975. The Chinese Opium Wars. New York: Harcourt ... *Hanes, William Travis, and Frank Sanello. 2002. Opium wars: the addiction ...12 KB (1,653 words) - 19:28, 21 August 2020
- is not all positive as one species is the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum ... * Papaver—— Iceland poppy, Oriental poppy, Opium poppy, corn poppy ...16 KB (2,490 words) - 11:58, 13 February 2022
- neuralgic pain and became addicted to opium. His much-admired poem "Kubla ... Beginning in 1796, Coleridge started using opium as a pain reliever ...13 KB (2,014 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- door to China's demise with the Second Opium War. He reasoned that eradicating ... Chinese interior, which after the Second Opium War in 1860 had been opened ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 10:51, 11 April 2024
- war against Great Britain in the First Opium War. The ruling Qing dynasty ... involved more soldiers than the Napoleonic Wars earlier in the century, and ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- period because it had suffered devasting wars on its soil in the late 1500s ... the colonization of China and the Opium Wars there with grave concern ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- First (1894-1895) and Second Sino-Japanese Wars (1937-1945), the Japanese ... In 1842 the British defeated Chinese forces in the First Opium War ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- by China at the hands of Westerners during the Opium Wars, the Korean court persecuted the French missionaries, massacring French Catholic missionaries ...8 KB (1,114 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- realizing the futility of waging trade wars in remote seas, the English ... the company with the four Anglo-Mysore Wars. Mysore finally fell to the ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- French occupation of Beijing during the Second Opium War, Choe felt dread and foreboding that Korea would suffer the same fate. After several skirmishes ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- defeat Western powers, such as Britain, in the Opium Wars and were also seriously challenged by the Taiping Rebellion. By the late nineteenth ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 00:04, 13 February 2024
- her to inveigh against drugs, in particular opium and cannabis. Using the name ... understanding of the use and effects of opium, cocaine, and pharmaceuticals ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- and defeats in wars, including the Opium Wars with Great Britain the ... areas north of China. During the Napoleonic Wars, Great Britain attempted to ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- the time of Josephus and the Roman-Jewish Wars). Bauer, like other advocates ... results which are identical with those of opium, it puts all parts of humanity ...21 KB (3,103 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- it maintained until the outbreak of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the opening ... (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between Britain and China ...22 KB (2,954 words) - 19:44, 20 June 2024
- by China with various Western powers after the Opium Wars, was also signed, confirming the opening of various ports and rivers in China to Japanese trade. ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- British and Chinese during the period of the Opium Wars, a time of disputes and hostilities. According to legend, he received a gift of tea flavored ...15 KB (2,263 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- through Guangzhou that initially triggered the Opium Wars, opening an era of foreign incursion and intervention throughout China. In addition to Macau ...24 KB (3,299 words) - 19:27, 20 June 2024
- and British India. The three Anglo-Afghan wars (1839–1842, 1878–1880 ... on earth, as well as a huge illegal opium poppy cultivation and opium ...51 KB (7,584 words) - 15:53, 29 October 2025
