The Opium Wars Quotes

“Palmerston’s Opium Wars” and said that he lived “in dread of the judgments of God upon England for our national iniquity towards China.”
― Hourly History, The Opium Wars: A History from Beginning to End

“the Indian Mutiny had ended in late 1858,”
― Hourly History, The Opium Wars: A History from Beginning to End

“A war more unjust in its origin, a war more calculated to cover this country with permanent disgrace, I do not know, and I have not read of.” —William Gladstone”
― Hourly History, The Opium Wars: A History from Beginning to End

“Britain created the largest, most successful and most lucrative drug cartel the world had ever seen.” —Nicholas Saunders”
― Hourly History, The Opium Wars: A History from Beginning to End