Opium War Museum information

The Opium War Museum (simplified Chinese: 鸦片战争博物馆; traditional Chinese: 鴉片戰爭博物館)（Alternative name：Humen Lin Zexu Memorial Hall; simplified Chinese: 虎门林则徐纪念馆;...

The First Opium War (Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought...

casus belli for Great Britain to declare war on Qing China. What followed is now known as the First Opium War (1839–1842), a conflict that initiated China's...

An opium den was an establishment in which opium was sold and smoked. Opium dens were prevalent in many parts of the world in the 19th century, most notably...

Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. Approximately...

foreign vessels. The "Sea Battle Museum", which has dioramas and displays featuring the First Opium War and the Second Opium War, may be reached by taking number...

Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine). Laudanum is prepared by dissolving...

13-nation International Opium Commission was held in Shanghai, in response to increasing criticism of the opium trade and to the Opium Wars. A few years later...

the opium poppy or breadseed poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae. It is the species of plant from which both opium and poppy...

First Opium War of 1839–42. He was from Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Lin's forceful opposition to the opium trade was a primary catalyst for the First Opium War...

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military...

is Papaver somniferum, which produces opium as a natural defense against predators. In the live flower, opium is released when the surface of the bulb...

lost in the war. Bibliography of early United States naval history Bibliography of the War of 1812 Elgin Military Museum Indiana in the War of 1812 Kentucky...

about seaborne threats from the West. By 1841, in response to the First Opium War, the defensive system in Dagukou was reinforced into a system of five...

during the Second Opium War in 1860, an event which drew a protest from Victor Hugo. The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among others,...

of poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the source of the narcotic drug mixture opium, which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has been...

The Football War (Spanish: Guerra del fútbol), also known as the Soccer War or the 100 Hour War, was a brief military conflict fought between El Salvador...

small amount of opium during the earlier years of the colonial period, but by the 1930s, Korea became a major exporter of both opium and narcotics, becoming...

with the First Opium War (1839–1842), and ending in 1945 with China (then the Republic of China) emerging out of the Second World War as one of the Big...

(26,900 sq ft). The museum covers topics from the time of the First and Second Opium Wars to the People's Republic era. The museum has 17,117 items on...

between Great Britain and the Qing dynasty of China to end the First Opium War (1839–1842), signed on 29 August 1842. In the wake of China's military...

First Opium War. The Chinese defeat in the First and Second Opium Wars resulted in the legalization of the importation of opium into China. Opium smoking...

communist take-over in 1949. The museum's oldest relics are from 6,000 years ago. It features a cannon used in the first Opium War, a sedan chair, and two bronze...

coastline from the time of the Ming Dynasty, through the First and Second Opium Wars and the Battle of Hong Kong, through to today. On 8 December 1941, the...