Most Forgotten or Over Looked Wars in History

[privatehudson]

Berwick-upon-Tweed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed

 

[superisis]

the same has been said about Sweden's war against San Marino (no formal peace treaty since the end of the Napoleon wars). But question is if it is just hearsay.

 

[Nobody]

"Please tell the Russian people that they can sleep peacefully in their beds."

lol, i bet the russians were scared

 

[antonio]

The Jugurthine War (122-105 BC) was fought between the Roman Republic and Jugurtha, the renegade king of the African client state of Numidia.

 

[antonio]

The War of the Eight Princes or Rebellion of the Eight Kings from 291 to AD 306.Doubt anyone knew about them.

 

[deo]

The War of Skenderbeg against the Ottoman Empire 1444-1468

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Scotland attempting to conquer the Irish.

Films like Braveheart would have you believe that the Celts all joined forces to fight the evil English. The truth is they hated each other as much as they hated the English

 

[Hannabir]

The war between Hoeks and Kabeljouws (1347 - ca. 1500).

 

[~Corsair#01~]

Cod War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_War

 

[Dark Khan]

prut campaign (ottomans can defeat russia maybe forever .After that ottomans never win against them) 1711
battle of carrae keep romans out of persia
sure cold war
battle of talas(turks meet arabic culture and islam )

 

[Dosser]

Scotland attempting to conquer the Irish.

Films like Braveheart would have you believe that the Celts all joined forces to fight the evil English. The truth is they hated each other as much as they hated the English

Hello board.

I believe you are talking about Edward Bruce's invasion of Ireland?

There was certainly no hate for the Irish that drove the Scottish invasion (Robert the Bruce referred to the Scots and Irish as 'our common people' due our shared historical origins).

Scotland and England were deep in war and the invasion of Ireland was originally designed to divert English resources and prevent recruitment of Irish mercenaries to fight in Scotland.

Actually if you know anything about that conflict it was the Ulster Irish who actually invited him over in the first place and crowned him as the High King of Ireland. The Ulster Irish were fed up with English rule at that point and considered him a far better candidate. Edward Bruce's following campaigns were against the English foces and the Anglo-Irish lords who supported them which was fair enough.

Saying that you are right that the portrayal of all us Celts always joining up to fight the English is a bit overboard. In the case of the Scots (of the lowlander variety) they really hated the Irish during the 17th Century during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Knew about all these Wars, you guys aren't trying particularly hard!

 

[mitsho]

Ok, what about the Swiss Civil War (the 'Sonderbundskrieg'). It lasted awesome 28 days... .
Then, there is the War that the Swiss call 'Schwabenkrieg' (Swabe* War) and the Germand call 'Schweizerkrieg' (Swiss War).

mfG mitsho

*People in the South of Germany and a Swiss not-so-nice name for all the Germans

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Yeah, you have found a rather obscure War from my perspective!!!

 

[SeleucusNicator]

In the US, not only is the War of 1812 forgotten, but so is, shockingly, the Mexican-American War.

Gee, do people ever look at a map and think "I wonder how that Southwestern part of my country got there"?

 

[privatehudson]

Probably assume you nicked it off the Indians like most of the rest

 

[mitsho]

Yeah, you have found a rather obscure War from my perspective!!!

See! I knew it... Do you want some more information or would it just be boring...

In 1798, Napoleon conquered Switzerland and killed the Ancien Regime. he created a new Switzerland, a modern one. Then he left, and in 1815 the wheel of time was turned back by foreign powers. But what once had begun, cannot be stopped. the political shape of Switzerland was steadily changing then, and in 1848, two fronts had been created, on one side, the centralist, mostly urban and protestantic (and romands) cantons, which were for a centralized government, and on the other the catholic, montanous, farmer/rural cantons of (mostly) inner-Switzerland. In that year, Europe exploded, and so did Switzerland.
The catholic cantons rebelled and were beaten after - I'm sorry I was wrong -27 days. first, the Swiss army of nearly (according to wikipedia) 100'000 men forced two cantons to surrender and then they besieged the capital of the Sonderbund, Lucerne. The War started on November 4th and ended on November 29 with the conquest of Lucerne. Less than 100 persons died because of the War and Switzerland then was the most modern country in Europe: centralized, liberal, peaceful and soon-to-be-very-wealthy.
But this centralized constitution is today one of the most decentralized ones... That's how time changes.

 

[antonio]

The Spain and Morrocn war of 2002 Morroco breifly controlled a few small Spanish islands but left without fighting after the Soanish sent in troops.

 

[Adler17]

I don´t think the crise about the Parsley island is considered to be a real war. Then you could add the German invasion of Helgoland of of December 20th 1950. 2 German students, Georg von Hatzfeld and René Leudesdorff, landed on the still British occupied island, which was the target of the RAF to destroy the island, which was not successfull. There they were until January 1951. They got company with some other people. The British were not so keen about that and forced the German police to act. After a surprisingly long waiting time a police boat arrived Helgoland with German police officers and 2 British army officers. The Germans left Helgoland but under the salute of the policemen. Although this "invasion" was "repelled" a year later Helgoland was given back to Germany, so in the end this "invasion" was successful.

Adler

 

[privatehudson]

See folks, this is the legnths the Germans have to stoop to in order to claim a victory in a recent war against us