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3 unusual facts about Margary Affair


Margary Affair

As part of efforts to explore overland trade routes between British India and China province, junior British diplomat Augustus Raymond Margary was sent from Shanghai through southwest China to Bhamo in Upper Burma, where he was supposed to met Colonel Horace Browne.

Margary Affair (Chinese: 马嘉理事件 or 滇案) is the name of a crisis in Sino-British relations, which followed the murder of British official Augustus Raymond Margary in 1875.

The crisis was only resolved in 1876 when Thomas Wade and Li Hongzhang signed the Chefoo Convention, which covered a number of items unrelated to the incident.



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