Canton River
Britishnoun
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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.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
The British expedition against China had arrived at the mouth of the Canton River in June.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
China took from the British East India Company its monopoly of the opium trade; British ships on the Canton River fired on.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various
When China ceded the rocky isle of Hong Kong to Great Britain in 1842 it was the haunt of fisherfolk and pirates prosecuting their callings in the estuary of the Canton River.
From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield
While one part of the fleet blockaded the mouth of the Canton River, the remainder proceeded to the northward to look into different harbours.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
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