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....... during the Opium Wars of the 19th Century .......

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The Colonel says the opium from India went through that corridor that now includes Bangladesh and into China. https://rumble.com/v4ivv46-the-colonels-corner-book-clubreview-gold-warriors-by-sterling-and-peggy-sea.html

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It would be fair to say that "The sun never set on the Spanish and Portuguese Empires" when they were joined at the hip from 1580 - 1640 after the heir to the Portuguese crown was killed in a battle in Morocco, the Spanish overseeing the Portuguese colonies

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