The previously unmarked grave of a British soldier who fell fighting for his country in the First World War has been identified more than a century after his death. Lance Corporal George ...

The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and navy were no match for the British navy. As a result of ...

which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a military expedition to force China to open its market to Indian ...

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted ...

Hong (*1972) work: “Three Arguments about the Opium-War” (2015) is an inquiry into ... The recent Hong Kong footage features text justifying the British colonization of China, focusing on ...

Rubio remarked, referencing the Opium Wars that confronted China and British opium merchants, as quoted by RFA. The Opium Wars that occurred between 1839 and 1842 and 1856 and 1860 saw China ...