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The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
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First Opium War
1839–1842 war between Britain and China
The First Opium War, also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Chinese Qing dynasty between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was the Chinese enforcement of their ban on the opium trade by seizing private…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Qing dynasty
Manchu-led dynasty of China (1644–1912)
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. Being the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. At its…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)