Why did the British Attack the Chinese? - The First Opium War

It all began back in the 17th century when the British East India Company established budding trade relations with China. These ties would strengthen over time as the East India Company grew to dominate European trade with China and eventually led, in the mid 18th century, to the foundation of the Canton System in which the contemporary Chinese Qing dynasty would be able to better control the booming trade with the British.

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♦Sources :

Beeching Jack -The Chinese Opium Wars (Hutchinson, 1975)

Bingham John Elliot - Narrative of the Expedition to China from the Commencement of the War to Its Termination in 1842 (2nd ed.). Volume 2.

http://visualizingcultures.mit.....edu/opium_wars_01/o

London: Henry Colburn.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Opium-Wars

https://www.citeco.fr/10000-ye....ars-history-economic




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