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To: tonycavanagh

There was some sort of dust-up with muslims and redcoats in India a long time ago, wasn't there, over paper cartridges (that you had to bite) lubricated with pork fat, so that native troops rebelled?
You may have a point.


53 posted on 04/18/2006 7:55:21 AM PDT by tumblindice (`I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.'.... Groucho)
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To: tumblindice
re :There was some sort of dust-up with muslims and redcoats in India a long time ago, wasn't there, over paper cartridges (that you had to bite) lubricated with pork fat, so that native troops rebelled?

That was in the back of my mind when I first started posting to this thread.

68 posted on 04/18/2006 8:20:57 AM PDT by tonycavanagh (We got plenty of doomsayers where are the truth sayers)
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