People have always been willing to fight. This is noticeable even if you take a very cursory look at our history. Wars were fought for various reasons, sometimes quite logical - money, power, religion, territory. But there were also far more ridiculous pretexts for armed conflict. Wars over stray dogs, pigs and emu ostriches, oak buckets and football matches, wars without a drop of blood and with many thousands of casualties. What to do about wars in the blood of humanity.
1. Lee Har v. France. In 1883, a small Spanish village, li hour, found it outrageous to insult the Spanish king during his stay in France. Mayor Lee Hara, with the support of 300 residents, declared war on France on behalf of his village. Over the nearly 100-year history of the conflict, not a single shot has been fired.
2. The Oak Bucket War took place in the Middle Ages. in 1325, two cities - Bologna and Modena had long been at enmity, but the kidnapping of a brand new oak bucket from a city well by a deserter from Bologna to Modena was the last straw. the war was marked by the only battle in which Bologna lost and was left without a bucket.
3. The Paraguayan War from 1864 to 1870 went down in history as one of the bloodiest wars because of the ambitions of the ruler. The President of the Republic, Francisco Solano López, was a great admirer of Napoleon without possessing high skills in warfare. Paraguay declared war on Brazil and Argentina and Uruguay and suffered a terrible defeat with 300,000 casualties. about 90 percent of the male population.
4. The war stray dog was called the conflict of 1925 in the waiting area of Greece and Bulgaria, who had fought against each other before during the First World War. According to rumors, a Greek soldier chased a stray dog fed by him and was shot by Bulgarian border guards. in response, Greece sent troops into Bulgaria, and she dropped a complaint against her to the League of Nations.
5. Aroostuk war took place between the USA and Britain in 1838 39 years. During the dispute between the two countries over the border between the United States and Canada. A direct armed conflict was avoided thanks to diplomacy, but several soldiers died from illness and accidents.
6. War over the pig.
Another confrontation between the United States and the British Empire happened in 1859. on the disputed San Juan Islands, a British farmer shot and killed a pig owned by an Irish man living on American soil. the heated dispute almost spilled over into a military conflict, but everything was resolved peacefully.
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7. The 335-year war is officially recognized as one of the longest and least bloody wars in human history. it passed between the netherlands and the silly archipelago as part of great britain began in 1651 and ended in 1986. just at some point, the fact of the declaration of war was completely forgotten after three centuries.
8. A football war broke out for four days in 1969 between El Salvador and Honduras after the defeat of the Honduras team during the qualifying match of the World Cup. The losses on both sides amounted to about 5,000 people. The peace treaty was signed only 10 years later.
9. The War for Jenkins' ear was fought between England and Spain from 1739 to 1742. Formally, it began with the severed ear of the English captain Robert Jenkins as a symbol of the aggression of Spanish soldiers against English sailors. The ear was thoroughly alcoholized and presented in parliament.
10. The war with Emu, which happened in Australia in 1932, claims to be the most stupid military operation of all. Emu ostriches ate the harvest of Australian farmers and they called for help from soldiers with machine guns. managed to shoot several hundred birds out of 20,000. The problem remained unresolved and the farmers had to come to terms.