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China: Three prosperous merchants of Canton / Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, 1861, shortly after the end of the Second Opium War (1856-1860)

China: Three prosperous merchants of Canton / Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, 1861, shortly after the end of the Second Opium War (1856-1860)

The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China, lasting from 1856–1860.

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