![]() ![]() Cooke's 'China', which has been freely made use of). The causes of the fresh outbreak of hostilities are set forth in a dispatch which was sent by Seymour to the Admiralty on November 14th, 1856 and they may be thus summarised (Perhaps the best account of the origin and early part of the Second Chinese War is in G. The result was that both locally and at the capitals, the governing classes became steadily more and more inattentive to British remonstrances concerning acts of aggression, until, in 1856, the affair of the Arrow, and the vigorous action of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, brought about the second China War, which lasted, with intermissions, for nearly four years. ![]() ![]() For a time these were arranged as they arose, without resort to war but they were arranged, unfortunately, in a manner which too often allowed the Chinese to remain in the belief that they had won diplomatic triumphs. The first China War, 1839-42, had not taught the lessons which it was designed to teach and within a few years of its conclusion new difficulties began to arise between the British and the local authorities in various parts of the huge invertebrate empire. ![]()
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