Clay_Allison
Staff Sergeant
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- Dec 24, 2008
Hundred years war?
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The thirty years war must be the most horribly devastating. Nearly one third of Germany's population was killed by famine and disease.The 'Hundred Years War' is a piece of lazy historiography. It was not continuous - for example, there were 26 years of peace between the end of the Caroline War in 1389 and the start of the Lancastrian war in 1415. Most lengthy medieval and early modern wars were like this - other examples include the Napoleonic Wars, the War of the Roses, the English Civil Wars and the Eighty Years War. The Thirty Years War was more or less continuous though, so must surely rank as one of the longest
Great time to be a mercenary though.It's not a conflict that I have studied in any depth, but it was centuries ahead of its time in terms of the fanaticism of the combatants and the carnage they inflicted on civilian populations. The Eighty Years War was also particularly savage - again, the division between Protestant and Catholic played a large part in the bloodshed. It seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same...
You sure you haven't made a typo there Z? That last veteran would have to have been at least 160-165 when he died, by your reckoning
I never thought Geronimo's Comancheros really counted as anything but bandits.The Apache war lasted 56 years from the first clash between Americans and Apaches in 1830 till the surrender of Geronimos' Chiricauas in 1886.
The Apache war lasted 56 years from the first clash between Americans and Apaches in 1830 till the surrender of Geronimos' Chiricauas in 1886.
The Indians of the Great Plains and the Southwest who used horses tended to be very good light cavalry and were not easy to defeat conventionally. It took years to get them all rounded up on the reservations. I think you would be surprised on the tactical genious of some of them.I never thought Geronimo's Comancheros really counted as anything but bandits.
There was never a formal declaration of war that I know about because the tribes were not connected to each other and were basically numerous nations much like in Europe. The wars lasted from the 1600's until the 1890's with the last clash being in 1976 with the Wounded Knee uprising on the Pine Ridge reservation. From 1850 to 1890 the death toll between whites and Indians was around 19,000 and 45,000 respectively.Out of curiosity, were the Indian wars ever 'declared' formally, or did they just occur out of frontier clashes?
Oh, I agree with their skills. I question their tribal Bona Fides, especially where it concerns the Apache. I read about his band as a bunch of half breeds and renegades.The Indians of the Great Plains and the Southwest who used horses tended to be very good light cavalry and were not easy to defeat conventionally. It took years to get them all rounded up on the reservations. I think you would be surprised on the tactical genious of some of them.
Been covered already in this thread.Don't forget The 100 Year War between England and France....