The Opium Wars—two conflicts fought primarily between the British and the Qing dynasty first in 1839 and then again nearly two decades later—were at their simplest about the British desire to ...

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.

The Opium War was "a brilliantly snappy name that sneakily prejudges the issue in very simple form: While China had done Britain no harm, the British gratuitously invaded China," reported Gelber.

In 1839, an imperial Chinese official named Lin Zexu came to this town at the mouth of the Pearl River delta to supervise the destruction of 20,000 chests of British opium, triggering a chain of ...

The Professor of English Language and Literature at Brock University specifically notes that the First Opium War, fought between China and the British Empire from 1839–1842, began as a trade ...

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.. Opium and ...

The First Opium War began when China blocked British opium trade, leading to military action. Similarly, British trade restrictions on American ships contributed to the War of 1812.

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.