Gunboat Empire: Paddle Steamers at War

Shallow-draft, paddle-powered and unstoppable — Nemesis and the Opium War gunboats that forced open China, and the converted river steamboats and ironclads of the Civil War's western waters.

Playlist by @paddle_steamer_history

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. First Opium War - The Righteous Minister - Extra History - Part 2 — Extra History
2. First Opium War - Conflagration and Surrender - Extra History - Part 4 — Extra History
3. Feature History - First Opium War — Feature History
4. The First Opium War — WarFronts
5. The Opium Wars using Google Earth — mapsinanutshell
6. How did the Opium Wars Actually Happen? - All Parts — Knowledgia
7. War on the Water: Civil War Navies — American Battlefield Trust
8. Salvage of the Gunboat Cairo - Struggle for Vicksburg DVD - Civil War historic Film — finleyholiday
9. Ironclad - The USS Cairo Story Revised — Bill Kendall
10. The Civil War: Confederate Boat Burners on the Mississippi — C-SPAN's American History TV