The first opium war, which commenced on the 18th of March, 1839 and ended on the 29th of August, 1842. The First Opium War was fought between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Qing Imperium. This war came about due to their conflicting opinions on trade, additionally occurred due to the factor of the extinction of opium. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the request for Chinese goods (particularly silk, porcelain, and tea) in the European market engendered a trade inequity because the market for Western goods in China was virtually non-existent; China was fundamentally self-sufficient and Europeans were not allowed admission to China's interior. European silver poured into China when the Canton System, introduced in the mid-17th century,
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By 1800 the East India Company was purchasing 23 million pounds of tea per year at a cost of 3.6 million pounds of silver. Alarmed that the China trade was suctioning the silver out of England, the British probed for a kindred product to trade for China’s tea and pottery. They found this product in opium. The British merchants still did not have enough of this product to export and to balance their imports with China, so therefore they blamed the restrictions of the Canton trade for this failure they had.
In late October, the Thomas Coutts arrived in China and travel in a ship to Canton Province. This ship was possessed by Quakers, who denied to deal in opium. The ship's captain, Warner, thought Elliot had surpassed his licit ascendancy by forbidding the signing of the "no opium trade" bond. The captain negotiated with the governor of Canton and hoped that all British ships could drop off their goods at Chuenpee. Fighting commenced on 3 November 1839, when a second British ship, the Royal Saxon, endeavoured to sail to …show more content…
Meanwhile, at the far west in Tibet, the commencement of the Sino-Sikh war integrated another front to the strained Qing military. By January 1841, British forces commanded the high ground around Canton and subjugated Bannermen at Ningbo and at the military post of Dinghai. By the middle of 1842, the British had subjugated the Chinese at the entrance of their other great riverine trade route, the Yangtze, and occupied Shanghai. The war determinately ended in August 1842, with the signing of China's first Uneven
By 1800 the East India Company was purchasing 23 million pounds of tea per year at a cost of 3.6 million pounds of silver. Alarmed that the China trade was suctioning the silver out of England, the British probed for a kindred product to trade for China’s tea and pottery. They found this product in opium. The British merchants still did not have enough of this product to export and to balance their imports with China, so therefore they blamed the restrictions of the Canton trade for this failure they had.
In late October, the Thomas Coutts arrived in China and travel in a ship to Canton Province. This ship was possessed by Quakers, who denied to deal in opium. The ship's captain, Warner, thought Elliot had surpassed his licit ascendancy by forbidding the signing of the "no opium trade" bond. The captain negotiated with the governor of Canton and hoped that all British ships could drop off their goods at Chuenpee. Fighting commenced on 3 November 1839, when a second British ship, the Royal Saxon, endeavoured to sail to …show more content…
Meanwhile, at the far west in Tibet, the commencement of the Sino-Sikh war integrated another front to the strained Qing military. By January 1841, British forces commanded the high ground around Canton and subjugated Bannermen at Ningbo and at the military post of Dinghai. By the middle of 1842, the British had subjugated the Chinese at the entrance of their other great riverine trade route, the Yangtze, and occupied Shanghai. The war determinately ended in August 1842, with the signing of China's first Uneven