Identifier: storyofgreatestn06elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r in which England engaged in 1839, was disgraceful toher. In the year named the Chinese Emperor forbade the importation of thepoisonous drug into that country. England was largely engaged in cultivatingopium in India for the Chinese market, and forbade the Emperor to interfere.War followed, with the result that the Chinese were compelled to allow thedrug which destroys the bodies and souls of millions, to be brought into theircountry as before, while the opium planters of India and the English tradersreaped a golden harv^est in thus violating the sacred rights of a heathen people.A bully does not stop when he merely browbeats his enemy, and Great Britaincompelled the opening of Hong Kong and several important ports to Britishtrade, subsequent wars adding others. The war of 1838 in Afghanistan brought dreadful disasters to the Britishtr(X)ps who occupied the country. An uprising of the natives compelled themto retreat from Cabul in 1842. and the troops were annihilated in the mountain
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England—The Crimean War II21 defiles. The following year a war broke out with the Ameers of Sind, andtheir country was conquered by Sir Charles Napier. The disturbances in thePunjaub ended in the annexation of that country in 1849 ^o the British domin-ions ; while the province of Pegu was wrenched from the Burman Empire andadded to the British in 1852, in which year also New Zealand was colonized. It seems to be the decree of perverse fate that Turkey shall be the bone ofcontention among the leading Powers. Any disturbance of her government orboundaries must threaten the balance of power, as it is termed, and themutual jealousy of those Powers will not permit that. Turkey, therefore, isthe intolerable nuisance among nations. She is corrupt, treacherous, and cruelto the last degree, her most cherished amusement being that of massacringChristians. Gladstone well named the Sultan the Great Assassin, while the unspeakable Turk for generations has stood as the type of unbridled ferocityW

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