William Ewart GladstoneMay 1840
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"
Great Britain · Warfare / Opium Wars, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
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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