Examples of British colonization in Asia and Africa

Asia: India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Brunei, Democratic Yemen.

Yuanmingyuan was brutally looted and burned by the British and French allied forces in the tenth year of Xianfeng, that is,1June, 860, which became a humiliating history in China's modern history.

By the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the science and technology of the whole country had fallen far behind the West, and class contradictions were becoming increasingly acute. 1840 (20 years of Daoguang), western colonialists provoked the war of aggression against China-the first opium war. Then the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement against the rule of the Qing Dynasty broke out in China.

1856 10, Britain and France jointly launched the second opium war. Its purpose is to grab greater colonial interests. First, they started the Guangzhou War twice, but both failed to meet their expectations. In order to exert direct pressure on the Qing government, the capital of Chen Bing was decided. The invading army approached Tianjin1May 858, and the Qing government was forced to sign the Tianjin Treaty with Britain, France, Russia and the United States respectively.

1860 (the tenth year of Xianfeng) In July, the fleet of British and French aggressor troops rushed out of Dagukou again, and under the guise of exchanging contracts between British and French ministers in Beijing, they forcibly pushed forward and lured them to "make peace". However, it has repeatedly created troubles with the aim of forcing the capital of Chen Bing to yield. However, the corrupt and incompetent Qing government made up its mind to beg for peace, and it was too late to decide the strategy of war and defense. The invading army went straight to Tongzhou. On September 2 1 day, the Qing army lost the decisive battle at Bali Bridge in Tongzhou. The next morning, Emperor Xianfeng fled from Yuanmingyuan to chengde mountain resort. It's called "Traveling to the North", but in fact, it runs away regardless of its ancestral home. As a result, the capital has no owner, and all the officials are scattered, and the soldiers are afraid of the people.