most pointless wars

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I was also going to comment this. Which is not something I'd be bragging about if I were in Town Line. All Rights Reserved. Jenkins was the captain of a British trading ship in a Spanish port.

Without warning, Spanish authorities boarded his boat, and grabbed his cargo. The aptly named Pig War nearly saw an argument over a slaughtered swine lead to a full-scale conflict between the United States and Great Britain. Yeah it had overlying reasons, immigration, but it was all kicked off after a soccer game between the two became ugly. One of the victims of the rioting was an expatriate French pastry chef named Remontel, whose small café was ransacked by looters.

Pouring Billions of Dollars into a black hole of non accountability. The Basus War was has since become a common reference - a way to warn people not to let powerful hatred loose over something trivial. Two powers had just spent a lot of money killing a lot of people over a dried ear. It lasted just shy of 10 years between 1979 and 1989, and its aims were practically meaningless.

We, from Michigan, like to think that we won that war because Ohio had to keep Toledo... LeBron James Claps Back at LA County Sheriff Who Came for Him: 'What's Right Is Right, and What's Wrong Is Wrong', Next Year You'll Be Able to Use Microsoft Office Without a Subscription, Thank Goodness, Cardi B Is Facing a Defamation Lawsuit for Getting Into It With 'Racist MAGA Supporters' On the Beach, For the Next 2 Days, Take up to 80% off in Wayfair's Huge Way Day Sale, Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Federal Contractors From Providing Diversity Trainings, How to Identify and Report an Illegal Job Posting, Officer Involved in Breonna Taylor's Death Emails More Than 1,000 Cops Claiming, 'We Did the Legal, Moral and Ethical Thing That Night', Secessionist Hamlet Takes Stroll Down Memory Lane, The Anglo-Zanzibar War: Shortest Conflict in History. Guess how long the conflict lasted after that. Twenty people fought for the Union. Eventually, word of the situation reached Washington, where British and American officials agreed that the death of a British man was a serious matter, then had it gently broken to them that Cutlar's use of the word "pig" was not metaphorical.

It took six weeks even to argue the British down to one warship, and for that to happen a group of British marines had to establish camp on the island.

A million or more dead, terrible war crimes and atrocities committed by the Iraqis, and nothing to show for it on either side.

Learn about tantrums over pork, and battles that were over after a single shot. (To be fair, he did have his personal security fighting back when they shelled him.) It was between 38 and 45 minutes.
It's a common piece of trivia.

The 1812 war is the reason why the Spanish and Portuguese empires fell, it might have been useless but had a huge impact on south America, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you.