Articles on First Opium War, Including - Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, Thomas Francis Wade, Anthony Blaxland Stransham, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, John Taylor (VC), Augustus Leopold Kuper, Samuel Evans (VC), John Robarts (VC) (Paperback)

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