Mankind in all ages loved to war. Nowhere on it does not go, such is the nature. Reasons for this may be the most absurd, not to mention the reasons. From the banal to the desire to become famous despicable petty grievances over trifles. It seems that people just love to kill, and this collection of 10 of the strangest wars in human history, proof of this.
In 1932 the population of emus in Australia is out of control. It is estimated that more than 20,000 hungry birds running around the desert, and anyone not in principle prevent the valiant than the Australian Army. The military headquarters of the country decided to teach bred ostriches, and declared, "for fun" war on them, the outcome is for the poor birds were not at all funny. During the week a group of soldiers armed with machine guns arranged in a desert ambush on the unsuspecting enemy. It was the bloodiest in November. For seven days, were killed in 2500 emu, and then the Australian army surrendered. The soldiers refused to participate in a brutal massacre. As it turned out later on that there were other reasons. Kill the emu actually was not so easy. Affected even more machine-gun bullets, strong birds continued to run ahead of the Australian heavy-duty soldiers.
In 1992, Transnistria, on the ruins of the Soviet Union, war broke out. About four months were fighting for what was not already irrelevant. But really strange to be seen late at night on neutral territory drank fighters from both the warring parties. The soldiers even entered into agreements not to shoot at each other the next day, if you recognize that someone with a drink. A similar thing happened more than one or two nights a regular basis. One soldier wrote in his diary: "War as a grotesque show. During the day, we kill our enemies, and then during the night we drink with them. What a strange thing ... this war." The war in Transnistria in 1300 claimed human lives on both sides.
Some wars begin with a sudden attack, the other with a mass slaughter, and this began with a football match between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. El Salvador lost the match, tensions grew between the states and 14 June, the army defeated the team went on the offensive in Honduras. Four days of Salvadoran military took revenge for the people of Honduras to the defeat of his football team. After the Organization of American States intervened and lawlessness has been discontinued. Casualties in the war totaled 3,000.
Ironically, the longest war that was at our civilization has managed without a single victim. We are talking about the war between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, located at the south-west coast of Britain. No one remembers who first and why, in 1651 declared this war, but the fact remains - for the time of "war" is not killed a single person. In 1986, about the war and remembered the peace treaty was concluded. If all wars were so ...
Another amusing confrontation between the United States and Britain on the border of Maine. After the war, in 1812, British troops occupied much of eastern Maine, and, despite the lack of troops in the area is still regarded it as British territory. In winter 1838, American lumberjacks to saw wood in the disputed area and as a result provoked the wrath of Britain, which transferred the troops in the area. States also pulled back the troops and it seemed that the war would be inevitable. Throughout the eleven months of active military operations were expected, which has not begun. Due to an error in the department of supplies, the U.S. military got a lot of beans and pork, which stuffed, and then organized the "gas attack", loud noises frighten the English. Although military action has not been made, from disease and accidents for 11 months of inactivity of more than 550 have died on both sides.
In 1925, Greece and Bulgaria were sworn enemies. They fought each other during the First World War, and the wounds have not healed. Tensions have been particularly acute on the border of an area called Petrich. There's a fragile peace was broken October 22, 1925, when the Greek soldiers chased the dog, running on the Bulgarian border and was killed by a Bulgarian sentry. Greece has promised to take revenge and invaded Petrich on the next day. They quickly cleaned frontier region, killing more than fifty Bulgarian soldiers, but further inland could not move. League of Nations was called upon to stop the invasion and leave Petrich. Ten days later, Greece withdrew its troops, paying 45,000 pounds in Bulgaria compensation for damages.
President of Paraguay, Francisco Solano Lopez, was a great admirer of Napoleon Bonaparte. He fancied himself as a professional strategist and a great commander, but lacked one thing - war. To solve this small problem, in 1864 he declared war on Paraguay immediately surrounding the three countries - Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. The outcome of the war? Paraguay was almost completely destroyed and ruined. It is estimated that about 90% of the male population were killed during the war, disease and hunger. Lasted senseless slaughter in the name of the commander of Fame from 1864 to 1870. The losses in this war were over 400,000 people, which is a colossal figure for Latin America at that time.
This war began in 1325, when the rivalry between the independent city-states of Modena and Bologna had reached its peak due to the simple wooden buckets. The problems began when a detachment of soldiers raided Modena to Bologna, and stole a wooden bucket in one of the wells. Wanting to get back the stolen item, Bologna declared war, and for 12 years tried unsuccessfully to regain the lost wooden bucket. To this day, the trophy is kept in Modena.
In 1883, residents of a small village in southern Spain Lizhar came into a rage when they learned that their beloved Spanish King Alfonso XII Frenchman insulted during his visit to Paris. In response to this Mayor Lizhara, Don Miguel Garcia Saez, and with it, all 300 residents of the village October 14, 1883 declared war on France. Bloodless war ended later in '93, when the Spanish King Juan Carlos made a trip to Paris during which to him with great respect by the French. In 1981 the City Council Lizhara held that "due to the excellent relations with the French," they stop fighting and agree to a peace treaty with France.
In 1859 a British infantry soldier shot and killed a pig, wanders on American soil. Outraged Americans declared war. For four months, developed a plan of retaliation by the British troops were based strategy and tactics of military operations, but eventually the British apologized, saying that it was an accident. At the war ended. The losses in the war: a pig.