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==== Historical books online ====
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gzdDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Opium Trade: A copy of all papers and despatches at the India House on the subject of hostilities between the Chinese and British Subjects engaged in the Opium Trade from 1830 – 1833''] : Ordered ... to be printed 24 March 1840 (Google Books)
*[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/in.ernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle/2015/209009 ''Foreign Mud: being an account of the opium imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s & the Anglo-Chinese War that followed''] by Maurice Collis 1946. Pdf download Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209009 Archive.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/morningofmylifei00nyegrich ''The Morning of My Life in China: comprising an outline of the history of foreign intercourse from the last year of the regime of honorable East India Company, 1833, to the imprisonment of the foreign community in 1839''] by Gideon Nye 1873 Archive.org. Events prior to the War.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=StpbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''China''] ''Sessional Papers printed by Order of the House of Lords in the Session 1840 Volume VIII Accounts and Papers'' [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=StpbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 Contents]. There are also additional Contents pages for the sub sections.
*''Narrative of the Expedition to China from the Commencement of the War to its Termination in 1842: with sketches of the manners and customs of that singular and hitherto almost unknown country'' by J Elliot Bingham RN 1843 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QGY_AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR5-IA2 Volume 1, 2nd Edition with Additions], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Dmg_AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume 2, 2nd Edition with Additions]
*''Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong Kong, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of the Chinese'' from Notes of W[illiam] H[enry] Hall, R N and W D Bernard 1844 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nX1CAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9HZCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/b21298051/page/n5 ''Medical Notes on China''] by John Wilson, Inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets. 1846 Archive.org. The "Minden", a seventy-two-gun ship was fitted out as a floating hospital and despatched to China in 1842.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=baNDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA23 ''The Opium War: Being Recollections of Service in China''] by Captain Arthur Cunynghame, Aide-de Camp to Major-General Lord Saltoun, Commanding Her Majesty’s and the Hon. East India Company’s Troops in China. 1845 Google Books.
*"The Marines at Canton, The Peiho, and Pekin" ''The United Service Magazine 1876 Part 1'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HtsRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92 pages 92-103], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HtsRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA197 pages 197-202]
