
Free Download Mark Simner, "The Lion and the Dragon: Britain's Opium Wars with China 1839-1860" English | ISBN: 1781557179 | 2019 | 304 pages | EPUB | 4 MB During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of
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