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Kalevipoeg 
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 Topic: One battle wars...Posted: 25-Dec-2005 at 10:31 |
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I would need some examples of wars that were won with a single battle.
An example like Stalingrad would surely not do where a hundred battles
were fought just to get to that one battle.
More in the lines of two armies meeting, one crushes the other and already after that single fight, the loser sees himself so overpowered by the adversaries military supremacy or then that the loser was so beaten militarily that another battle was out of question. Immideate surrender by the losing country, tribe or whatever entity it was. |
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Decebal
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Posted: 25-Dec-2005 at 10:41 |
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History's shortest war comes to mind: I believe that it was England vs Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. The whole war lasted 45 minutes. After the death of the sultan, one of the contenders assemebled a small army and took power. The British supported another contender, so they landed marines and their warships started shelling the island. After only 45 minutes, the would-be sultan recognized that the situation was hopeless and surrendered. |
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Argentum Draconis
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Posted: 25-Dec-2005 at 13:02 |
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wasnt it 34 minutes?
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Kalevipoeg
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Posted: 25-Dec-2005 at 15:07 |
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Thank you dudes. Waiting for some more examples.
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There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge...
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Ikki
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Posted: 25-Dec-2005 at 15:36 |
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The very first war: Egypt (Rameses II) against Hittites, Battle of
Qadesh (the only known battle of the war. Phirric victory for the egys,
drawed war.
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Genghis
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Posted: 25-Dec-2005 at 20:50 |
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Many of the wars in ancient Greece were one battle affairs over relatively minor border issues.
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Hannibal Barca
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Posted: 25-Dec-2005 at 22:58 |
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I believe that Desert Storm lasted only 100 hours. Pretty short.
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Jalisco Lancer
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Posted: 27-Dec-2005 at 01:57 |
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The spaniard invasion to Mexico in 1829, when Gen. Barradas expedition was defeated by Gen. Santa Anna at Cabo Rojo near to Tampico. |
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Constantine XI
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Posted: 27-Dec-2005 at 06:02 |
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Cunaxa is a good one. Interesting in that the "victors" melted away
after their win simply because Cyrus the younger was killed. In this
case they lost the war on the same day they won the only real battle of
the campaign.
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Guests
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Posted: 29-Dec-2005 at 13:48 |
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I hope someone didn't already put this, but one of my favorite wars, was a one battle war, Where William I of Normandy landed at Hastings and destroyed the bulk of the english army at the Battle of Hastings. Afterwards the Godwinsons just gave up. This happened in 1066.
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Posted: 29-Dec-2005 at 14:06 |
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The Kettle War of 8 October 1784 between the Netherlands and Austria. The Dutch had closed the estuary of the river Scheldt for all ships from the Southern Netherlands (owned by Austria). Austria wanted to open the Scheldt again and sent a small navy, expecting the Dutch wouldn't dare to fight back. Only one shot was fired, which hit a kettle on board of an Austrian ship, which immediately surrendered.
Another victimless war was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, that lasted no less than 335 years: http://scillynews.severecci.net/?p=11138 |
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Genghis
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Posted: 29-Dec-2005 at 14:23 |
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Khalkin Gol was the only major battle of the Soviet-Japanese border war in 1939.
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Hyarmendacil
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Posted: 30-Dec-2005 at 12:40 |
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Well...I would have liked to provide some examples myself, except that my military studies have been colored by an opinion that the best-fought wars are the ones that were won without any battles at all...
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Temujin
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Posted: 30-Dec-2005 at 19:41 |
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no battles? war of bavarian sucession 1778-79 comes to mind, only manoevres and smaller skirmishes.
RE Hastings: you could considder Stamford bridge too as beign part of the war |
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Iranian41ife
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Posted: 30-Dec-2005 at 23:51 |
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want the battle of talas the only battle between the chinese and the arabs with the defeat of the chinese and loss of huge lands to the arabs?
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