Cant wait for all the tears this year
Apparently the main revolutionary who said this also said they claimed it as their own. All the possible origins are really neat, and it seems pretty clear the British didn’t create the name but rather chose it from the movement’s phrases or someplace local as a means of denying the KFLA name which would imply political legitimacy.
Which KFLA also sounds cool as hell when said phonetically
Here is his memoir if anyone wants to read it https://archive.org/details/maumaudetaineeac0000kari