The Great Opium War

The east india company lost their monopoly in 18 34, and from that point forward, the opium trade just became a free ferall these were the days when merchants in england were fantasizing about 400 million chinese adding an inch to the hem of their garments. So back to linsa she he thought, with england so far away, and all the foreigners sort of clustered down in one general area in and around canton, that they'd see the error of their ways and they'd back down. But he didn't consider the proximity of india to china. India was the perfect re supply to fight a war.