For this post about war, I researched about the shortest war in history. What I found, was in a wikipedia article. The shortest war in history was fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar, and it lasted approximately 40 minutes. The war started because of the death of the pro-British Sultan, Hamad bin Thuwaini. This happened on August 25, 1896. Involved in this war were 3 cruisers, 2 gunships, 150 marines and sailors, and 900 Zanzibaris. 2,800 Zanzibaris defended the palace, and had lots of artillery and machine guns. At 9:02,the palace was bombarded, and the artillery was destroyed, the British sank a Zanzibari royal yaght and two smaller vessels, and some shots were fired, and then the flag at the palace was shot down and fighting ceased at 9:40. I thought this was interesting to read about, because i've never even heard of this war, and it was only 40 minutes long.
weblink:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War
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