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**mildperil** · 10-02-2012, 14:15

How's about the War of the Triple Alliance? On the face of it pretty dull, fought as it was between between a bunch of sweaty South American types, but it boasts the highest number of casualties as a proportion of population of any war. The wiki article reckons that 60-70% of the entire population of Paraguay was killed. If that was the UK now my fag packet calculation makes that 42 million deaths.

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**supermatelot** · 10-02-2012, 14:34

The 1847 war between the Teke and M'Bochi tribes in The Congo. The war was about disputed land claims that arose due to an unpaid dowry, cattle rights and a cut of the harvest the next year. The Teke successfully invaded the village of M'naga, scalped the chief and cut off all his limbs as a message. this infuriated the M'Bochi who decreed that all males born from then onwards had a duty to kill all Teke. The war lasted 8 months until a compromise was reached which involved 3 virgins, some goats and the Teke chief's 3 daughters.

**John Civie** · 10-02-2012, 14:39

Argentine revisionism since the 1960s give a preponderant role to the interests of the British Empire

They realy don't like us do they blaming us for a war most of us have never heard of

**Mr Tweedy** · 10-02-2012, 15:54

War of the Stray Dog, between Bulgaria and Greece, 1925. Started (Allegedly) when a greek soldier chased a stray dog across the boprder, and a Bulgarian border guard shot him. Only lasted about 10 days, resulting in the Greeks being condemned by the League of Nations for invading Bulgarian territory and having to pay a fine of 45,000.

**Goatman** · 10-02-2012, 18:31

Originally Posted by FORMER_FYRDMAN

The War of Golden Jubilee. So obscure, no-one remembers fighting it, even though a shedload of medals were awarded.

Hah....I can't explain...it wouldn't make any sense to you kids........you had to be THERE MAN!

Originally Posted by UORMan

Any war involving the French taking the lead would be pretty obscure in my book.

Um.....Peninsular War ? Marechal Soult ring any bells ? Torres Vedras? Sir John Moore ?

Franco-Prussian War ? They got raped though.....The Prussians are hard BIG bastards....

For obscure - Gran Chaco War ...Paraguay Vs Bolivia ..1934-ish.... The Gran Chaco War, 1928-1935

**ordinaryforces** · 10-02-2012, 19:03

the 1969 bahrain NAAFI skirmish.
the crew of an american carrier tried to large it up in the beer-bar in jufair..not sure who won the battle but the next months naafi damages out of our pay was fucking horrendus.