10 facts about the "crap" wars

To start a war, you need not so much.

1. in New York was once a real war. When the British tired of Indians, who, in general, that, quite peacefully (by mutual agreement) lived in Manhattan, the British found a formal occasion: Indian Woman caught voruyuschey peaches in the garden senior Englishman, and Indians were cut completely. It came to be known as the peach war.

2. Due to brazenly steal pearl bridal necklace 4 years fought two tribes of the Vikings, and they say it is because of this war, now there are Swedes and Norwegians (who could easily be one of the people). And by the way, the necklace was not such a beautiful three thread roughly treated river pearls on a leather cord.

3. The French and Spanish monarchs adored swear because of women. First one, then another king seduced another man's wife or mistress, and, as a rule, it turned out that she - a blood relative of another king. Because of this, between France and Spain it was at least 4 of the war, the longest of which lasted for 7, 5 years.

4. A British could not share with the Spanish and Portuguese land. Of course, not a sin to argue, for example, for Africa, but one turned out really quite funny: 4 and a half years the British bravely repulsed the attacks of the Portuguese in a besieged fortress, and then found out that the island for which there is a dispute, can entirely fit inside this fortress. Messenger correctly pointed out on the map prepared.

5. In Brazil, two high-ranking officials do not share the four boxes of contraband Cuban cigars. The war lasted for 3, 5 years.

6. In medieval China in three years lost 15 thousand soldiers and officers from the fact that one aristocrat in the heat of the dispute pulled the beard of another - the worst insult you can not just imagine!

7. and in Africa to start a war - even a piece of cake. In 1834, a village chief argued with the others because of the cow, which seems drowned in a marsh, and maybe it eaten by wild animals, but the shaman said that it was stolen. In general, the war began and two years later the two tribes exterminated each other entirely.

8. Japan. Coming to the negotiations by the powerful shogun, after stopping a foot on the throne than the prescribed etiquette, and got up from his knees for half a minute before the transfer gift - brocade embroidered ruby slippers. Vendetta samurai and shogun descendants lasted for 250 years, resulting in burned two thirds of the island of Hokkaido and killed about 150 thousand people.

9. To what still was touchy rulers of the ancient Assyrians. Turtle War, which lasted nearly five centuries, started from the fact that the guest from neighboring countries invited to the palace of the Assyrian king, did not raise the floor inlaid with tortoiseshell comb, which is dropped, for example, straight, not quite sober queen.

10. In 1249 the soldiers fled from Bologna to Modena, taking the old oaken bucket, from which watered his horse. Bologna authorities demanded that they were not a deserter and a tub. Having been refused, Bologna Modena start against the war, which lasted for 22 years and is accompanied by significant destruction. A bucket is still in Modena and is stored in one of the towers of the city.

via factroom.ru

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