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The '''War of Humiliation''', also known as the '''Cantonese War (1850),''' was a 19th century colonial war over European influence in China. It pitted the Great Qing Empire and her allies the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]] against the British, French and the breakaway Cantonese Kingdom. The war lasted 7 years and is considered to be the bloodiest colonial war of the 19th century with numbers of causalities that weren't matched until the [[East Indies Crisis (1960-1976)|East Indies Crisis]] in the 1960's & 1970's.
The war led to a dramatic balance shift in East Asia and allowed for the rise of Canton, [[Corea]] and [[Taulandt]] as major regional powers. It is also known to many historians as the beginning of the Dutch Decline with the Kingdom of the Netherlands loosing influence in Southern China and simultaneously loosing the vast swatches of North American territory to the Spanish Empire in the Dutch-Spanish War (1850).
== Background ==
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