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01-08-2015, 02:20 PM
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Opium served as the coin of Exchange for the British Empire for several decades and it was the only commodity available to rescuethe Empire’s Company from bankruptcy.
Opium was a commodity traded by chests, “each chest of opium weighed about 133 poundsand contained about 120 pounds of semi-processed opium.”
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An “average cargo was about1,000 chests which could be delivered from Calcutta to the Canton estuary in as little as 25days with fast ship and good weather.”
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As a first source from someone who lived in Indiaduring the Nineteenth Century narrates,
http://www.academia.edu/1444383/The_...m_1764_to_1825 (http://www.academia.edu/1444383/The_role_of_Opium_in_the_Expansion_of_the_British_ Empire_from_1764_to_1825)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?211671-Bankrupt-British-Empire-turned-to-be-drug-cartels-and-traffickers-shame-the-angmoh&goto=newpost).
Opium served as the coin of Exchange for the British Empire for several decades and it was the only commodity available to rescuethe Empire’s Company from bankruptcy.
Opium was a commodity traded by chests, “each chest of opium weighed about 133 poundsand contained about 120 pounds of semi-processed opium.”
2
An “average cargo was about1,000 chests which could be delivered from Calcutta to the Canton estuary in as little as 25days with fast ship and good weather.”
3
As a first source from someone who lived in Indiaduring the Nineteenth Century narrates,
http://www.academia.edu/1444383/The_...m_1764_to_1825 (http://www.academia.edu/1444383/The_role_of_Opium_in_the_Expansion_of_the_British_ Empire_from_1764_to_1825)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?211671-Bankrupt-British-Empire-turned-to-be-drug-cartels-and-traffickers-shame-the-angmoh&goto=newpost).