Lin Zexu

The first important breach in the wall of exclusiveness was made by the Anglo-Chinese War of 1839-42, often called the Opium War.

A commissioner of the Chinese government, Lin Zexu, determined to put an instant end to the opium trade, demanded that the British merchants at Canton surrender the stocks of opium which they had there for sale.

When the British refused, he put the British community in Canton under quarantine and brought it almost to starvation.

This was one immediate cause of the war.

Dewey, among others, was asked to report and replied that the island of Luzon was most valuable commercially and strategically and that the islands contained varied and valuable mineral resources.

If on first impulse he declared the Filipinos more capable of self-government than the Cubans, he later made amends by explaining that neither island was fit for independence.

When the peace conference met, the American commissioners were at first instructed to ask for the island of Luzon.

Subsequently, the receipt of more convincing information led President McKinley to direct them to demand the entire archipelago, and he insisted that conquest justified such demand, though the commissioners were more inclined to ask the islands as an indemnity since the conquest occurred after the peace protocol was signed.

The first important breach in the wall of exclusiveness was made by the Anglo-Chinese war of eighteen thirty-nine through forty-two, often called the Opium War.

A commissioner of the Chinese government, Lin Zexu, determined to put an instant end to the opium trade, demanded that the British merchants at Canton surrender the stocks of opium which they had there for sale.

When the British refused, he put the British community in Canton under quarantine and brought it almost to starvation.

This was one immediate cause of the war.

Dewey, among others, was asked to report and replied that the island of Luzon was most valuable commercially and strategically and that the islands contained varied and valuable mineral resources.

If on first impulse he declared the Filipinos more capable of self-government than the Cubans, he later made amends by explaining that neither island was fit for independence.

When the peace conference met, the American commissioners were at first instructed to ask for the island of Luzon.

Subsequently, the receipt of more convincing information led President McKinley to direct them to demand the entire archipelago, and he insisted that conquest justified such demand, though the commissioners were more inclined to ask the islands as an indemnity since the conquest occurred after the peace protocol was signed.

The first important breach in the wall of exclusiveness was made by the Anglo-Chinese War of 1839-42, often called the Opium War.

A commissioner of the Chinese government, Lin Zexu, determined to put an instant end to the opium trade, demanded that the British merchants at Canton surrender the stocks of opium which they had there for sale.

When the British refused, he put the British community in Canton under quarantine and brought it almost to starvation.

This was one immediate cause of the war.

Dewey, among others, was asked to report and replied that the island of Luzon was most valuable commercially and strategically, and that the islands contained varied and valuable mineral resources.

If on first impulse he declared the Filipinos more capable of self-government than the Cubans, he later made amends by explaining that neither island was fit for independence.

When the peace conference met, the American commissioners were at first instructed to ask for the island of Luzon.

Subsequently, the receipt of more convincing information led President McKinley to direct them to demand the entire archipelago, and he insisted that conquest justified such demand, though the commissioners were more inclined to ask the islands as an indemnity since the conquest occurred after the peace protocol was signed.

The first important breach in the wall of exclusiveness was made by the Anglo-Chinese War of 1839-42, often called the Opium War.

A commissioner of the Chinese government, Lin Zexu, determined to put an instant end to the opium trade, demanded that the British merchants at Canton surrender the stocks of opium which they had there for sale.

When the British refused, he put the British community in Canton under quarantine and brought it almost to starvation.

This was one immediate cause of the war.

Dewey, among others, was asked to report and replied that the island of Luzon was most valuable commercially and strategically and that the islands contained varied and valuable mineral resources.

If on first impulse he declared the Filipinos more capable of self-government than the Cubans, he later made amends by explaining that neither island was fit for independence.

When the peace conference met, the American commissioners were at first instructed to ask for the island of Luzon.

Subsequently, the receipt of more convincing information led President McKinley to direct them to demand the entire archipelago, and he insisted that conquest justified such demand, though the commissioners were more inclined to ask the islands as an indemnity since the conquest occurred after the peace protocol was signed.

So China decided to act.

The emperor sent a strong official named Lin Zexu, pronounced Lin Zexu, to stop the opium trade.

Lin was not a weak man.

He was serious, disciplined, and deeply convinced that opium was destroying China from the inside.

The first important breach in the wall of exclusiveness was made by the Anglo-Chinese war of 1839-42, often called the Opium War.

A commissioner of the Chinese government, Lin Zexu, determined to put an instant end to the opium trade, demanded that the British merchants at Canton surrender the stocks of opium which they had there for sale.

When the British refused, he put the British community in Canton under quarantine and brought it almost to starvation.

This was one immediate cause of the war.

Dewey, among others, was asked to report and replied that the island of Luzon was most valuable commercially and strategically and that the islands contained varied and valuable mineral resources.

If on first impulse he declared the Filipinos more capable of self-government than the Cubans, he later made amends by explaining that neither island was fit for independence.

When the peace conference met, the American commissioners were at first instructed to ask for the island of Luzon.

Subsequently, the receipt of more convincing information led President McKinley to direct them to demand the entire archipelago, and he insisted that conquest justified such demand, though the commissioners were more inclined to ask the islands as an indemnity since the conquest occurred after the peace protocol was signed.

The first important breach in the wall of exclusiveness was made by the Anglo-Chinese war of 1839-42, often called the Opium War.

A commissioner of the Chinese government, Lin Zexu, determined to put an instant end to the opium trade, demanded that the British merchants at Canton surrender the stocks of opium which they had there for sale.

When the British refused, he put the British community in Canton under quarantine and brought it almost to starvation.

This was one immediate cause of the war.

Dewey, among others, was asked to report and replied that the island of Luzon was most valuable commercially and strategically and that the islands contained varied and valuable mineral resources.

If on first impulse he declared the Filipinos more capable of self-government than the Cubans, he later made amends by explaining that neither island was fit for independence.

When the peace conference met, the American commissioners were at first instructed to ask for the island of Luzon.

Subsequently, the receipt of more convincing information led President McKinley to direct them to demand the entire archipelago, and he insisted that conquest justified such demand, though the commissioners were more inclined to ask the islands as an indemnity since the conquest occurred after the peace protocol was signed.