The British only deployed 19,000 troops in the opium war, and far less in any single...?

Answer: The Opium War was astonishingly one sided.​ The Qing managed to sink no.​.​.​ Long's Digest Top Stories For You The British only deployed 19,000 troops in the opium war, and far less in any single battle. Why could the Chinese not overwhelm them with vastly superior numbers? Ian Holloway, former Principal Lecturer (1997-1999) Updated Mar 17, 2020 The Opium War was astonishingly one sided. The Qing managed to sink not a single British warship and inflict only about 70 fatal casualties [Ref 1] in a war which lasted ne... Read More » How was Voldemort able to hold off Slughorn, McGonagall and Shacklebolt but be scared of a couple of Aurors? (In OOTP) Joshua Devereaux, Have read all the books multiple times growing up. Written Sep 8, 2020 In Order of the Phoenix, you say? Which part - you mean in Chapter 36, titled "The Only One He Ever Feared"? Let's be absolutely clear - it was not simply the arrival of a fe... Read More » What are the saddest or most haunting words spoken by a plane's crew about to crash? Aleks Storlid, Autodidact NTSB lad Updated Jun 10 Pacific Southwest Flight 1771 ( 7 December 1987)- Bang bang A panicked woman bursts into the cockpit: "We have a problem!" Captain: "What's the problem?" ... Read More » Why has Japan preserved far more of its borrowed Tang era culture than China itself? Phen Su, Historian Updated May 21 This is a conspiracy theory This view comes from the "Little China Thought" of Japanese scholars. They wrote many books to prove that the nomads destroyed Chinese culture. T... Read More » What mathematics should I know to study and understand category theory? Keith Ramsay, Ph.D. in mathematics Written Apr 17 I first picked up Saunders Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician somewhat prematurely, before taking an undergraduate algebra course. (It is a classic, but lo... Read More » Read More in Your Feed Never miss a story. Designed for readers on the go. This email was sent by Quora (605 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive this type of email in the future, please unsubscribe.http://www.quora.com/