China: Dragon Boat, Canton (Guangzhou), c. 1855-60, at the time of the Second Opium War. Gouache on paper

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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