Opium War

noun

1. a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.

Example Sentences

I rejoice that this cruel and debasing opium war is terminated.

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The island was ceded by China to Great Britain in 1842, after the conclusion of the opium war.

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It is really a sand spit, surrounded by water, which was made over to the foreigners after the opium war.

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The opium war in 1841 is not a thing to be remembered by England with pride.

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The famous Commissioner Lin, whose energetic proceedings gave rise to the opium war, is dead.

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