Person
Lin Zexu
Imperial commissioner sent to Canton in 1839 to stop the opium trade.
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worked at
- Qing imperial government 1839 imperial commissioner Primary record 1
intervened in
- Seizure of opium at Canton, 1839 1839 imperial commissioner at Canton Primary record 1
involved in
- Seizure of opium at Canton, 1839 took the opium and had it destroyed Primary record 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 1839 Lin Zexu worked at Qing imperial government
- 1839 Lin Zexu intervened in Seizure of opium at Canton, 1839
Proof 1 source
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Commissioner Lin, letter to Queen Victoria, 1839 (English translation of 1840), Internet Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University, 1839.
Primary record
especially dispatched me, the commissioner, to Canton, that in conjunction with the viceroy and lieut.-governor of the province, means might be taken for its suppression
they took 20,283 chests of opium piled up in their store-ships, and through Elliot, the superintendent of the trade of your said country, petitioned that they might be delivered up to us, when the same were all utterly destroyed
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