- Ya know, some wars are fought over freedom and some are
fought over pastries?
(sword slicing)
(engines revving)
If there was ever a lesson not to mess with your neighbors,
this would be it.
Way back in 494 AD in Saudi Arabia,
the Banu Taghlib and Banu Bakr tribes
got into a disagreement over a camel.
The camel, owned by a woman named Al Basus,
wandered off to go hang out with some of the other camels.
Now, Al Basus' nephew was the leader of the
Banu Bakr tribe and those other camels were owned
by the rival Banu Taghlib tribe.
That wouldn't have been that big of a deal except
that the chief of the Banu Taghlib's
killed Al Basus' camel not realizing that it wasn't
one of his own.
When her nephew found out, he took an eye for an eye
to a whole nother level and killed the chief.
That sparked a massive war between the two tribes
that lasted for 40 years.
Okay look, I get it, camels are precious,
but I'm pretty sure a four decade long war that's still
referenced as a warning against holding a grudge
wasn't the best way to deal with the problem.
I know they got them lovely camel humps,
but you just buy another one instead of starting a war
and killing people.
It's a good choice.
(ominous music)
The golden stool is the royal throne of the Ashanti people
and is believed to hold the spirit of the Asante nation.
It's so precious that few people ever get to even see it,
let alone sit on it.
Asante was located along the Golden Coast in what is now
Ghana and back in 1900, while their chief was in exile,
they were dealing with the British trying to
colonize their land.
But on March 25th, the British governor,
Sir Frederick Hodgson, demanded that they not only
let him sit on the stool, but also give it to him
to bring to the Queen.
Oh, that was bad movie Freddie!
The request was so disrespectful that the chief's mother
led an attack against the Brits.
The siege lasted three and a half months
until the Brits with heavy reinforcements broke through
on July 14th.
Sadly, in retaliation, local villages were pillaged
and land was stolen.
Over 2,000 soldiers and countless more civilians
were killed and all because some guy
couldn't sit on a stool.
It's not like it was a toilet and the guy was just
urgent to make ca-ca.
It was just a regular stool.
He was just lazy and didn't wanna stand up.
Man, these people.
On September 17th, 1788 in the midst of the
Austro-Turkish war, an Austrian army of 100,000 men
set up camp near the town of Cria-sha-besh.
A group of Army scouts crossed the nearby river
to make sure that the enemy Ottoman army wasn't close by,
when they met some gypsies with a whole lot of schnapps.
The scouts were pretty bruised up when more
infantry soldiers showed up and demanded that they share.
But the scouts refused and no surprise,
a fight broke out and a makeshift fort was built
around the barrels of schnapps.
That's kinda crazy.
I've never wanted to drink that badly in my life.
But it gets worse because amongst the chaos,
shots were fired and thinking it was the Ottomans invading,
soldiers started yelling, "The Turks, the Turks,"
which was made worse when German speaking officers
started yelling halt, which sounded to some like Allah.
It was just a whole big mess and then the fight
woke the rest of the camp who joined into the battle.
By morning, 10,000 soldiers had been killed and wounded
by their own men.
Yeah but, still got the schnapps though.
The San Juan Islands are located between Washington state
and Vancouver Island, but ownership of the land
was never clearly defined by the US or the British.
In the mid-1800s, the British-owned Hudson Bay company
moved onto the island and set up a huge sheep ranch,
but then in 1859, American settlers showed up
thinking it was their land.
Things were pretty tense and then on June 15th,
American Lyman Cutlar found a pig digging in his garden,
so he shot it.
Mmm, bacon.
Problem was, the pig belonged to Charles Griffin, a Brit.
When the British police tried to arrest Cutlar,
he called for military support.
By August 10th, five British ships and 2,140 troops
were face to face with 461 Americans and 14 cannons.
But luckily, both sides gave the order to only fire
if fired upon, so they just kinda sat there.
It took over six weeks for each side to agree to reduce
their armies, but the tension lasted 12 years
when America officially took control of the islands.
See kids, think twice next time before you go into
an unknown island and start shooting pigs.
In 1731, the War of Spanish Succession ended
with a treaty that let British traders take 500 tons
of goods and as many slaves as they wanted
from Spanish colonies.
It wasn't much of a peace deal, so Britain and Spain
were at war a lot.
In 1731, Julio Fandino, the commander of a Spanish
patrol boat, boarded the British ship, The Rebecca.
Fandino accused the captain, Robert Jenkins, of smuggling
and as punishment, he cut off Jenkins' left ear.
He was like an early, more civilized Mike Tyson.
So, in 1738, British Parliament decided to hold a hearing,
no pun intended.
Lucky for them, Jenkins had kept his detached ear
for seven years and brought it with him to court.
They were so outraged by the shriveled little ear
that they actually declared war.
407 British ships and 186 Spanish ships were lost
and over 20,000 British were killed
along with 4,000 Spanish killed and 5,000 total wounded.
The war lasted nine years with no territory gains
or a winner, all over an ear.
Man, I can't listen to this story anymore!
Heh, see what I did there?
Ear joke.
From 1838 to 1839, France and Mexico were involved
in the Pastry Wars, but don't get too excited.
It wasn't nearly as delicious as it sounds.
At the time, many countries were trying to take control
of Mexico and people were getting upset
with all the damage being done to their property.
So, in November of 1838, a French pastry chef,
Monsieur Remontal, issued a complaint with the French King,
Louis-Philippe.
He claimed that in 1832, his shop near Mexico City
had been looted and he wanted 60,000 pesos in compensation.
So, the King gave him his full support and demanded
that Mexico pay 600,000 pesos in damages,
but Mexico just refused.
So, France sent a fleet of warships to Veracruz,
the main port in the Gulf of Mexico.
Not only did he occupy the entire city,
but they blocked the Navy leading to Mexico declaring war
on France.
It only ended on March 9th, 1839 when Britain intervened
and got the Mexican president to agree to pay.
That would've been way more interesting if someone
just stole a whole bunch of croissants
and two countries went at it.
(sigh) And more tasty.
On February 6th, 1840, the signing of the
Treaty of Waitangi allowed the British to legally occupy
New Zealand, which wasn't exactly favored
by the local tribes.
The British began to take over more control
and move the capital from Waitangi in the Bay of Islands
itself to Auckland.
This was upsetting to the Maori tribe, which had signed
a deal to ensure their independence.
As the region lost out on huge revenues because of the move,
they built up support for a rebellion against the British.
And on July 8th, 1844, supporters cut down the flagstaff
that flew the Union Jack on Maiki Hill
in Kororareka.
But it did not take long for the British to put up
a new pole and flag.
So, they went and cut it down again.
In six months, the pole was cut down
and put back up three times.
Having enough, on March 11th, 1845, the 600 armed Maori
stormed the city and fought the British who were outnumbered
but eventually won.
The Battle of New Orleans was the biggest battle
of the War of 1812 between the US and the British.
British forces had made their way down to Louisiana
with hopes of taking New Orleans.
On January 8th, 1815, they marched on the city
but Major General Andrew Jackson had set up a strong
defensive that was three lines deep
and four miles long.
The fighting lasted until January 16th and it was
one of the war's bloodiest battles, but amazingly,
the Americans won with only 100 casualties
compared to the 2,000 British who were killed.
Only one small problem.
The battle was completely unnecessary.
That's because when the fighting started,
the war was already over.
Earlier, on December 24th, 1814,
a peace treaty between the US and the UK was signed
in GET, Belgium, effectively ending the war.
But see, 200 years ago, news didn't travel like it does now
and it took weeks for the news to reach North America
and the troops.
Damn technology, you scary!
In 1958, Iceland claimed that they had exclusive
fishing rights 12 miles off their coast.
Sounds fair enough, except the British weren't happy
about it because this was four miles more than Iceland
had before.
But instead of dealing with the issue with long,
boring policy meetings, things got pretty fishy,
like literally.
Like a scene from the Three Stooges,
the captains from both sides started throwing
live cod at each other.
At one point, Icelandic patrol boats tried to board
the British ships, but they chased them off
with axes and hammers.
Iceland even tried to blast a British fishing boat
out of the water, but was chased away by a gang
of British naval ships.
By the end of it, Iceland had six Navy ships
and Coast Guard vessels up against the force
of the British Royal Navy.
It took all the way up until 1976 for the British,
after being internationally mocked and losing tons
of money on military expenses, that they decided to quit
and let Iceland keep their water.
The British love their fish, do they?
It's not really worth it now, is it?
No.
The Kettle War took place in the Netherlands in 1784
and is considered to be the most humiliating war
of all time.
At that time, the Netherlands were split
into two territories.
The Northern Netherlands and the Austrian Netherlands
backed by the Roman Empire.
Since the late 1500s, the Northern Netherlands
had blocked trade ships from using the Scheldt River
to access Austria-controlled Belgium.
But on October 8th, 1784, the Roman Emperor,
Joseph the Second, decided to send three ships,
including his prized merchant ship, Le Louis,
up the river figuring it was about time that the Dutch
just let them use it.
No one ever thought that the Dutch would even notice,
but oh boy, they were wrong.
With tensions running high, a Dutch warship
fired a single shot at Le Louie and it hit
a kettle of soup.
This alone caused the army to surrender.
The Emperor tried to save face by declaring war
on October 30th but no one took him seriously.
I'm pretty sure this is where the phrase,
"Pick your battles," came from.
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