…what kinda drugs we talkin, here? Asking for a friend. Named me
Some guys are just desperate for a cup of tea
And guns, we had lots of guns and back then the Chinese valued life so it was more like a bunch of armed robbers holding up a supermarket
Worlds first drug related drive-by shooting, except instead of a car it was a battleship and instead of a street it was the Chinese coastline.
We got the whole gang together for opium war 2.
Brits 520 wounded 69 killed
China 18-20k killed or wounded
So good, we did it twice!
Hey we went there to trade and they said no, the subsequent actions were inevitable. The largest internal trading system on the planet could not be closed off to the mercantile machine…. That the only thing we had to trade was opium is a minor detail. On another note, the arrival of the Nemesis in 1840 is just about one of my most favourite events in naval/ military history. Not because the British won, the opium war was a stain on history, but just the collision of time. The first of its kind, an iron steam powered war ship collides with an out dated fleet of wooden ships… the conclusion was inevitable.
The Chinese withheld rhubarb in retaliation. ‘The British will die from constipation’
The British were literally just drug mules until they banned opium
Down with the Qing,bring Back the Ming
Ah Sssooo! the inscrutable Oriental Mind who Decided that Gunpowder was for Making Fireworks,,,,mmmm I will think about it?
Because of that war, West Yorkshire became cultivators of rhubarb.
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…what kinda drugs we talkin, here? Asking for a friend. Named me
Some guys are just desperate for a cup of tea
And guns, we had lots of guns and back then the Chinese valued life so it was more like a bunch of armed robbers holding up a supermarket
Worlds first drug related drive-by shooting, except instead of a car it was a battleship and instead of a street it was the Chinese coastline.
We got the whole gang together for opium war 2.
Brits 520 wounded 69 killed
China 18-20k killed or wounded
So good, we did it twice!
Hey we went there to trade and they said no, the subsequent actions were inevitable. The largest internal trading system on the planet could not be closed off to the mercantile machine…. That the only thing we had to trade was opium is a minor detail. On another note, the arrival of the Nemesis in 1840 is just about one of my most favourite events in naval/ military history. Not because the British won, the opium war was a stain on history, but just the collision of time. The first of its kind, an iron steam powered war ship collides with an out dated fleet of wooden ships… the conclusion was inevitable.
The Chinese withheld rhubarb in retaliation. ‘The British will die from constipation’
The British were literally just drug mules until they banned opium
Down with the Qing,bring Back the Ming
Ah Sssooo! the inscrutable Oriental Mind who Decided that Gunpowder was for Making Fireworks,,,,mmmm I will think about it?
Because of that war, West Yorkshire became cultivators of rhubarb.
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