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Bankrupt British Empire turned to be drug cartels and traffickers, shame the angmoh

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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...nsion_of_the_British_Empire_from_1764_to_1825
 
Re: Bankrupt British Empire turned to be drug cartels and traffickers, shame the angm

The only power the Brits have left are the US controlled nuclear weapons
 
Re: Bankrupt British Empire turned to be drug cartels and traffickers, shame the angm

Why did the British government become bankrupt? Because it's resources were sapped by filthy immigrants turning the lovely country into ghettos.
 
Re: Bankrupt British Empire turned to be drug cartels and traffickers, shame the angm

Why did the British government become bankrupt? Because it's resources were sapped by filthy immigrants turning the lovely country into ghettos.

it give out too much aid to India
 
Re: Bankrupt British Empire turned to be drug cartels and traffickers, shame the angm

dickhead Sinkie,

read the link properly. No wonder Singapore need FTs with Sinkie like you blur like sotong cannot understand what's the subject about?

British Empire!, not the current British government, dickhead shit skin.




Why did the British government become bankrupt? Because it's resources were sapped by filthy immigrants turning the lovely country into ghettos.
 
Re: Bankrupt British Empire turned to be drug cartels and traffickers, shame the angm

dickhead Sinkie,

read the link properly. No wonder Singapore need FTs with Sinkie like you blur like sotong cannot understand what's the subject about?

British Empire!, not the current British government, dickhead shit skin.

OK, shitskin I admit I misread.
 
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