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[kandrathe]

Ah. Well, then, the hole in that hypothesis would be that the US Civil War didn't even start until 4 years after the rebellion in India.

Wars just don't up and start one day. It takes a long period of being ticked off at one another first. Cotton was certainly a force in the US civil war, and Britain's huge appetite for the raw material created the impetus for westward expansion by the south, and the need to extend the slave culture to the new territories. It seems also that many actions by the East India company in India, also ticked off the population there. Of the many listed, the one related here was forcing the people to import cotton garments made in England rather than allowing them to make their own cloth with local cotton. The confederacy gambled heavily on Britain entering into the war to ensure their supply of cotton. Had they done so, the south would probably have won the war.