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Eventually the Portuguese were expelled by the Dutch, and then after the Napoleonic wars the British took over and established the British Crown Colony of Ceylon. The British government encouraged Christian missionaries to open schools in Sri Lanka as a means of “civilizing” the..

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The opium wars of the 1800s involved thousands of tons of opium pouring into China, which addicted millions of Chinese, devastated their economy, and contributed to their military loss against the British Empire. . ... In her book, , she recounted how a British cruiser intercepted an..

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