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Gandhi walked 387 km (240 miles) to make salt
On 12 March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi set out from Sabarmati Ashram with 78 volunteers. Twenty-four days later, on the morning of 6 April at Dandi on the Gujarat coast, he made salt from the sea, breaking the British monopoly on salt. Millions joined the protest, and more than 60,000 Indians were jailed.
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- Wikipedia. Salt March. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March