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Spain Controlled the World's Quinine. One Smuggler Ended It.
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Spain Controlled the World's Quinine. One Smuggler Ended It.

One plant, smuggled out of South America by a Scottish botanist, quietly ended an empire's greatest strategic advantage, without a single shot fired.

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