How Gun Lube Brought Down the British Empire
In 1857 colonial India, the British East India Company was an enormous publicly traded private corporation that literally controlled the country. They equipped and had under their control a large army, minted their own money, and oversaw all imports and exports to the subcontinent. The local millions of inhabitants of the area we know now as India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Burma, however, were not really in love with the concept but the spark that ignited a bloody war and spelled the doom of the company came from the type of gun lube used at the time.
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