Alright, tell me which wars you personally find interesting

Alright, tell me which wars you personally find interesting.
BUT it has to be a war that happened before the beginning of the 20th century ( before 1900)

to me, it's
- Thirty years war
- Pequot war
- King Philip's war
- War of independence

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First anglo-afghan war
>brits get fucked
>try to run
>get trapped in remote mountain pass
>Starve and freeze to death by the thousands while being harassed by hit and run afghan raids
>surviving british subjects end up as slaves and concubines
>20,000 royal subjects die or become sex slaves all because of a rumor that Russia might POSSIBLY be getting into the colonial game and establishing outposts on india's doorstep that could THEORETICALLY harm britain's holdings in the future
>Lead to another failed anglo-war

Its like history totally forgot this epic blunder and refuses to talk about it.

Bannock/Paiute War

I know it's talked about a lot but the whole events and circumstance surrounding Joan of arc in the hundred years war is still pretty jarring to me

But, user, the 20th century started in 1901!

The US Civil War

>Old World vs New
>Innovative vs Mass Industrial Production
>Both sides used outdated tactics with modern weaponry
>Set the precedent for federal consolidation of power (both bad and good)
>Last time generals and upper ranks served on the front lines with their men
>Saw the rise of some radical new machinery of war
>Proved that states can't govern themselves without a fight
>Loss of statehood identity in the end
>Arguably one of the last "romantic" wars
>Had some sketchy post-war results

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Irish Rebellion of 1798.
I don't know if pikes were the main weapon for the rebels, but I always wondered how a group could actually be able to fight a professional army that way, and still have some kind of an affect (rather than just randomly zerg rushing a cannon and hope something happens)

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Trojan, need I say more?

Imjin War
>Battle-hardened bloodthirsty ninja samurai vs a bunch of lazy corrupt bureaucrats that is the Korean Army
>Oh and Admiral Yi who smashing the entire Jap fleet solo

>Sketchy post-war results
More like dark post-war results lmoa

Wakanda foreva

I think it depends on who you ask, but yeah, the outcome was very dark.
>North and South still in bitter relations
>Massive loss of life
>John Wilkes Booth's massive fuck-up
>Tons of unemployed freed slaves
>Freed blacks never got their "40 acres and a mule" despite being promised
>Rise of the KKK and White League
>Northern slave states are still technically slave states
>Both Lee and Grant go out with a whimper
>South is left relatively poor
>Many southerners are forced to move to Mexico, South American, and wherever else
>Federal Government has more power than ever

Oh... He was making a pun. lol

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Currently reading about the Punic Wars. Pretty good read so far, does a good job breaking down the Roman Military of the time.

Currently using every last bit of german I've ever learned to read link related
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Wehrwolf
It's oldschool german, I imagine it's the same as if a german would try to read the original english version of Romeo and Juliett

Anyways:
>Nice and cozy peasant area in central north germany
>Peasant visits town to get some shit done
>War happens
>Comes back, finds his entire life eaten bysaid war. Farm burned down, wife, kids killed
>Collects sum bros and other peasants
>Starts a die-hard SHALL militia living in the woods killing thousands from all sides who vome to the area to rape and loot
>Do this for about 18 years until you got a new town innawoods

It's fucking rad but kinda proto-nazi since its a lot about muh Volk, muh heritage muh blood n soil but its good read

Emu war

War of Jenkins Ear. 1739-1748.

So...in 1300 we had a war in Italy over a stolen bucket...2,000 people died before the church imposed a peace.
I wish we were still this based...

To be fair, the war wasnt initially over the bucket so much as the gold and silver it was filled with that was more wealth than what both villages combined would ever see in a lifetime.

>Bush War
>Opium War
>Franco-Prussian War
>Napoleonic Wars (specifically campaigns in Italy and Egypt)
>WWI

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Some of the early Swiss wars are real funny, a handful of angry peasants massacring knights by the thousands.

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Weren't a good number of those "peasants" were probably exiled knitlghts templer.

Nope, mostly mercs from central Switzerland and peasants from the Leventina.

Spanish-American War.
>first war fought primarily with smokeless powder
>first hints of "modern" combat, IE machineguns, repeating rifles, small unit tactics, etc
>basically the last gasp of cavalry/dragoons
>2 regional powers duking it out over what was basically a third-world shithole at the time

>at the time

Guerra De La Triple Alianza:

Paraguay takes on Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil solo for years, and survives the longest siege in the western hemisphere while causing so many casualties for Brazil that they have to make political concessions tthat they are forced to free their slaves later on. Oh, and Everyone is rocking US Civil War surplus.

Imagine a proto WWI in South America and you're about right.

Which war of independence

the motherfucking opium wars
>realize you have an insane trade deficit with china
>you want their tea but they don't want anything from you
>get the bright idea to literally addict them to crack so they'll buy it with tea
>one of their generals burns one of the crack ships
>declare war on them twice for destroying british property
britbongs are at least half responsible for why chinks are so fucked up today

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>fought over Guam
Guam's a pretty nice place now.

>Personally
The American Civil War because it set a huge precedent for how the US government viewed personal liberty, self-governance, and their own economy, as well as being a total wake up call for the US military. That and unironically muh heritage
Other neat things:
>Both Schleswig Wars
>The First Italo-Ethiopian War
>Anything involving the French in SE Asia
>Shit that's already been mentioned

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>tfw never have a haram of English boipucci

>20000
No. Most of the captives were either freed or rescued in subsequent punitive campaigns