Canton River
Britishnoun
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China took from the British East India Company its monopoly of the opium trade; British ships on the Canton River fired on.
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But the Flying Scud? a deep-water tramp, who was lime-juicing around between big ports, Calcutta and Rangoon and ’Frisco and the Canton River.
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September 13, 1784: The Stars and Stripes first displayed in China by Captain John Green, of the ship Empress, in Canton River.
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Resigning his appointment with the legation, Kane established himself as a physician at Whampoa, on the Canton River, where illness shortly broke up his professional practice.
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It was again, "All hands up anchor," to proceed up the Canton River, and away we steered, past the towering island of Lin-tin, towards the Bocca Tigris.
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