Introduction to the First Opium War

Date: June 28, 1840 - August 1842 .

Location: China.

Result: British victory.

Root cause: Britain's urgent need for raw materials and markets to develop capitalism.

Territorial change: Hong Kong Island was ceded to Britain.

In 1840 (the 20th year of the Daoguang era), the British invaders launched a war of aggression against ancient feudal China. Since this war was caused by Britain's forcible dumping of opium into China, it is historically called the Opium War. After the Opium War, China began to change gradually from an independent feudal state to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal state, and the Chinese nation began a course of humiliation, suffering, exploration and struggle for more than a hundred years.

There is a very intriguing quote:

"Some of the small pill-popping countries that China had once heard of, or had never heard of, in the past were the ones that came to pay tribute and were not qualified enough to do so, are now lining up to come."

Military comparison of China's Qing Dynasty's eight banners and green battalion soldiers incomplete establishment of 800,000 to 900,000 people

Britain Forlorn led by more than 40 British ships and soldiers 4,000 people