Everything about Bite The Cartridge totally explained
Refusing to "
bite the cartridge" was a turn of phrase used by the British in India of Native Indian solidiers (
sepoys) who had mutinied in
1857.
It derives from the act of biting open a
paper cartridge containing
gunpowder in order to load contemporary
rifles.
One of the alleged causes of the
Indian Mutiny were rumours that the grease on these cartridges designed to keep them dry was, variously, pork or beef fat (pork being abhorrent to
Muslims, beef sacred to
Hindus), thus their refusal to bite them.
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