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What happens when soldiers lose their rum? In 1917, 20,000 Canadian troops refused to attack.
Britain had replaced the daily naval grog with watered-down French wine. Within days, troops were trading grenades and ammunition for bootleg Jamaican spirits on the black market. Officers later discovered entire underground distilleries carved into front-line trenches producing antifreeze-laced cocktails that blinded roughly 600 men. The crisis ended only after a general reinstated the rum ration and order returned.
This short uncovers the shocking mix of supply decisions, trench improvisation, and black‑market bootlegging that sparked a mass refusal to fight—part military mutiny, part tragic public‑health disaster in WWI.
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