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Opium war
The Opium Wars in the mid-19th century were a critical juncture in modern Chinese history. The first Opium War was fought between China and Great Britain from 1839 to 1842. wars.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars_(disambiguation)Allande writes'' when the Opium War between China and Great Britain broke out' Tao Chi'en was sixteen years old. At that point the country was overrun with beggars -
Floods
Allande writes''The deluge swept away hundreds of dwellings, and when finally the storm abated and the waters began to recede, a series of minor temblors, which came like God's wrath, finished destroying everything that had been softened by the pouring rain.'' -
FLOODS
(28)Allende writes ''That was the year of the floods, which were immortalized in schoolchildren's
textbooks and in their grandparents' memories.The deluge swept away hundreds of dwellings, and when finally the storm abated and the waters began to recede, a series of minor temblors, which came like God's wrath, finished destroying everything that had been softened by the pouring rain.'' -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed and the War between Mexico and the United States ended,https://g.co/kgs/vCZr3f
Allende writes, (254) ''The fever for gold rush was beginning to take the shape of enormous collective disillusion and Tao saw masses of debilitated and impoverished miners waiting for their turns to sail back where they had come from. The newspapers estimated that more than ninety thousand were going home. -
Gold discovered in California
First it was a wild rumor from the mouths of drunken sailors in the brothels of El Almendral, but a few days later the captain of the schooner Adelaida announced that half his crew had deserted in San Francisco. -
Vicente Perez Rosales
Perez Rosales was 41 years old when he sailed for California on December 28, 1848, in the company of three half brothers, a brother-in-law, two paid laborers and three servants. On board their ship were Chileans of all sorts, including a prostitute named Rosario Amestica,Allande writes(100) ''By December he couldn't take any more. As he was copying the particulars of a cargo that had arrived in the port, as he did meticulously every day, he altered
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quotes
Allande writes, Eliza says''What matters is what you do in this world, not how you come into it, she used to say to Tao Chien during the many years of their splendid friendship; he, however, did not agree. It was impossible for him to imagine his own life apart from the long chain of his ancestors, who not only had given him his physical and mental characteristics but bequeathed him his karma. -
El Dorado S
The attackers made a series of blind thrusts, wounding his enemy again and again but unable to rout him from the hole.
(217) Allande writes ''Eliza rode the length of the mother lode from south to north, from Mariposa to Downieville and back again, following the ever fainter trail of Andieta from the rivers to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.''