What have so far been your favorite wars in history and why?

My favorite is the Pig War. There were no casulties-other than the pig-and the border was finnally established in the Pacific North-West. And with participants as varied as George E Pickett, Winfield Scott, and Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany, just to name three, what's not to like? Unless you are kin to the pig.

"http://www.nps.gov/archive/sajh/pig_war_new.htm

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The 1898-1902 south african boar war. What i like about it. The fact that 3 future world leaders fought in the same battle and didn't know what they would become. Here some trivia for you.

Who were the leaders that were there?

What battle was it?

And bonus point's for anyone who can guess which world leader manage to get capture and then escape.

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I don't know about "world" leaders but John French and Douglas Haig were at Ladysmith as was WS Churchill.

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I don't know about "world" leaders but John French and Douglas Haig were at Ladysmith as was WS Churchill.

Well world leader's in there own way. The battle is Spion kop. The world leaders.

Church hill future prime minister of Britain.

Louis Botha future and first prime minster of
south africa.

And ghandi future leader of the indian peace movement.

Church hill was a reporter at the battle.
louis botha commanded the boer's.
ghandi was a medic.

Church would pass ghandi on the way the front and ghandi would pass him on the way toward's the med station. If They knew what they would become in the future. I wonder what they would say. 3 world leaders all on the same field and didn't know.

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You're not using an English version of Firefox are you?

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You're not using an English version of Firefox are you?

I'm using chrome

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Bladensburg

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Originally posted by world_king377:
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Originally posted by Bladensburg:
You're not using an English version of Firefox are you?
I'm using chrome

Ah. I just noticed that the the spell-checker is a bit on the dim side (Churchill becoming "Church hill" for example)

. It's not the kind of mistake that a human makes, certainly not when discussing history.

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Originally posted by world_king377:
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Originally posted by Bladensburg:
You're not using an English version of Firefox are you?
I'm using chrome

Ah. I just noticed that the the spell-checker is a bit on the dim side (Churchill becoming "Church hill" for example) . It's not the kind of mistake that a human makes, certainly not when discussing history.

lol sorry I type it to fast. Didn't even notice it. I was wondering where you were going about with the whole Firefox thing. Yea chrome has a spell checker but it's not as advance as Firefox.

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quote:
Originally posted by world_king377:
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Originally posted by Bladensburg:
I don't know about "world" leaders but John French and Douglas Haig were at Ladysmith as was WS Churchill.
Well world leader's in there own way. The battle is Spion kop. The world leaders.

Churchhill future prime minister of Britain.

Louis Botha future and first prime minster of
south africa.

And ghandi future leader of the indian peace movement.

Church hill was a reporter at the battle.
louis botha commanded the boer's.
ghandi was a medic.

Church would pass ghandi on the way the front and ghandi would pass him on the way toward's the med station. If They knew what they would become in the future. I wonder what they would say. 3 world leaders all on the same field and didn't know.

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The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739) has always held a great fascination for me. It was declared eight years after the "atrocity" upon which it was based occurred. I admire the title, the Caribbean setting, England versus Spain, privateering etc.. Haaaarrrr...

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And bonus point's for anyone who can guess which world leader manage to get capture and then escape.

Churchill managed to get himself captured but escaped.

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And bonus point's for anyone who can guess which world leader manage to get capture and then escape.

Churchill managed to get himself captured but escaped.

looks like you get the bonus points.

Extra if you can tell how he manage to escape.

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