How One Uncut Wire Cost India Its Independence (1857)

In May of 1857, the British East India Company managed to lose nearly all of India before lunchtime on a Sunday. Two hundred and fifty thousand angry soldiers were marching to wipe them out. The only thing that saved the British Empire from total collapse? A two-millimeter piece of metal string. In this video, we dive into the chaotic history of the 1857 Indian rebellion, how a corporate productivity hack became mysterious black magic to locals, and why a single uncut telegraph wire in Delhi changed the course of world history forever. 👉 Subscribe for more animated historical deep dives ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- """Drums of the Deep"" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b..."