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Gladstone lambasts Palmerston's Opium War and said that he felt in dread

Great Britain · Warfare / Opium Wars, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1840

William Ewart GladstoneMay 1840

Warfare / Opium Wars, 1st

Gladstone lambasts "Palmerston's Opium War" and said that he felt "in dread of the judgments of God upon England for our national iniquity towards China"

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William Ewart Gladstone

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