beginning with the First Opium War of 1839-42. In the first half of the 19th century, the British government faced an economic problem. Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a ...

FAMILIES WHO LIVED THERE AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS BLACK HISTORY AND ACTUALLY HAS A LOT OF BLACK HISTORY. SOME OF THAT HISTORY CAN BE ...

PRESENTER:'Here in this room in Nanking, 'they negotiated the first ... Opium was grown in British India, and smuggled into China. The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after ...

The combat experience in Poland and France showed that soldiers using methamphetamine were showing clear signs of superiority ...

When warned, Queen Victoria refused to comply. Lin Zexu, the commissioner of Canton, destroyed 23,700 chests and blockaded trading posts, sparking the First Opium War in 1839. The British secured the ...

What he hoped to destroy forever was recently found by archaeologists, giving experts a fresh perspective on the life of Continental soldiers during the Revolutionary War. As crews made way for ...

Juan Jose Alonso, head of the Royal Palace archive, shows files from the archive of letters sent by relatives of missing soldiers from the First World War asking for help from the Spanish King ...

beginning with the First Opium War. A new NCAA rule allowing CHL players to participate is set to have significant impacts on the Canadian hockey landscape. Dealing with an incendiary Donald Trump ...

SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky. A snow-covered stretch of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Israeli soldiers overlook the Gaza Strip from a tank, as seen from southern Israel, on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024 ...