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The First Opium War (1839–42), also known as the First Anglo-Chinese War, was the first of two Opium Wars fought between Great Britain and the Qing Dynasty of China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice. Chinese officials wished to stop what they thought was an outflow of silver and to control the spread of opium, and confiscated supplies of the drug from British traders. They did not understand that the British government, though it did not deny China's right to control imports, would object to this seizure and had a newly developed military power to enforce violent redress. In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking—the first of what the Chinese later called the Unequal Treaties— though it did not mention either opium or diplomatic relations, granted an indemnity to Britain, the opening of five treaty ports, and the cession of Hong Kong Island, thereby ending the trade monopoly of the Canton System. The war is now considered in China as the beginning of modern Chinese history. Source :[link]

The First Anglo-Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts during the Great Game, the 19th century competition for power and influence in Central Asia between the United Kingdom and Russia, and also marked one of the worst setbacks inflicted on British power in the region after the consolidation of British Raj by the East India Company. Source : [link]

Propotion of the total manpower of all British garrisons in the empire, the Indian Army accounted for well over half (62%). In Lord Salisbury's acid description, India was 'an English barrack in the Oriental Seas from which he may draw any number of troops without paying for them.'

During the half century before 1914 Indian troops served in more than a dozen imperial British campaigns, from China to Uganda.

The Liberal politician W.E. Forster complained in 1878 that the government was relying 'not upon the patriotism and spirit of our own people' but on getting 'Gurkhas and Sikhs and Mussulmen to fight for us.' There was even a music-hall
parody on the subject :

We don't want to fight,
But, by Jingo, if we do,
We won't go to the front ourselves,
We'll send the mild Hindoo.

Source : Empire, by Niall Ferguson, 2003.

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Netherlands aph belonged to Himaruya H.
Indonesia aph & Malaysia aph belonged to Himaruya H. Her official sketch - [link]
Indie is Indonesia when her name is still Dutch East Indies.
India OC by dinosaurusgede.
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Pakistan should be here too. He was part of India back then, no?