The shortest-lasting war ever recorded in the history of the world is so short that you doubt your life, so that we can also foresee the future of the World Hegemony in the United States.
Both sides of the war: Britain and the Kingdom of Zanzibar, a small African island at the peak of the "Empire that Never Sets"
Duration of the war: The amount of time you spent in a class when you were in school (I don't need to tell you exactly how much, right?). You guessed it, haha)
The specific date of the war: August 27, 1896
The general course of the war is as follows:
On August 25, 1896, Hamad bin Duvini, Sultan of Zanzibar, came to the end of his life.
This sultan means king, but he is a theocratic supreme office. Well, in the king's house, like all the palace fights you see, as soon as the old king dies, his princes will have some power and profit.
No, as soon as Hamad bin Duvini passed away, his two sons could not contain their thirst for power and sought backers to fulfill their desire to ascend to the throne.
In fact, long before the outbreak of the war, Zanzibar was constantly in dispute with the intervention of Germany and Britain. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, hamad bin Duvini, the old sultan of Zanzibar, was controlled by the British, so the island became the area under the de facto british control.
But actual control is not the same as complete control, and although the Germans have lost actual control, their influence over Zanzibar is still very possible.
On 25 August, while the old Sultan's bones were still cold, the British first supported his eldest son, Hamad bin Mohammed, as Sultan. But this result aroused the great dissatisfaction of the second son of the old Sultan, Khalid bin Bagash, who thought that he was the most suitable heir to Zanzibar, and since you British did not support me, then I would go to someone who supported me.
Soon, Bagash was on the move with the Germans, who had lost control. With the support of the Germans, Bagash established himself as sultan, fighting against his brother Muhammad, who was supported by the British.
"One mountain does not allow two tigers", let alone a kingdom. Therefore, the British launched their own spokesman, Muhammad, to issue a statement demanding that Bagash recognize the situation and automatically abdicate, otherwise he will bear all the adverse consequences.
How can the fat meat that reaches the mouth be spit out? If Bhagashm had abdicated voluntarily, he would not have been able to establish himself as king by any means of a deliberate attempt. Besides, the Germans behind him would not be willing.
So, Bhagash neatly and bluntly refused the "kindness" of his eldest brother, and with the help of the Germans, actively organized an army of nearly three thousand men, the source of which was also very complex, with only a few soldiers and court guards, and the rest were servants and slaves, ready to resist the pressure from Muhammad and the British. Bagash had some guns and other weapons, and among them was a ship in expired service, the USS Glasgow.
At a glance at this position, both Muhammad and the British knew that no amount of tongue would help, and that there would be only force of repression.
At 9:00 a.m. on August 27, 1896, Muhammad issued an ultimatum to his brother, and the British also provided him with 3 cruisers, 2 gunboats, 150 Marines, and about 900 Zanzibar servants, and rushed along the waterway to the "palace" where Bhagash was located.
Seeing that the strength of the big brother was far above himself, Bagash was obviously a little afraid in his heart, and he once tried to get peace through the mediation of the Americans, but the Americans were still the "little brothers" of the British "big brothers" at this time, and they had no interest in this kind of pediatric brotherly dispute.
There was no way but to fight. Bhagavast had a heart, "To die & to the heavens, not to die for ten thousand years", fight and fight, in case you win?! However, this kind of thing is obviously not enough confidence.
At 9:02 a.m. that day, the British army gathered the Zanzibar servants, did not even get off the ship, and directly shelled the "palace" of Bhagash.
You know, The army of nearly three thousand people in Bhagash is at best a militia armed force, there are few regular soldiers, most of them are made up, and there are few weapons in hand, so the end of the war is obvious.
By 9:45 a.m., Bhagash's "army" had collapsed, and those who had been shelled had died, and those who had not been hit by shells had scattered and fled. Throughout the engagement, Mohammed's side (mainly British and British weapons) fired a total of 500 rounds of artillery shells, 4,100 rounds of machine gun ammunition and more than 1,000 rounds of rifle ammunition.
Therefore, in the face of absolute strength, the desperate Bagash had to admit his defeat, and at the next moment when the British army stopped shelling, Bagash submitted to his eldest brother and the British army, and voluntarily abdicated and surrendered.
Thus, a "huge" war involving three countries and four forces finally came to an end, which lasted less than 45 minutes, becoming the shortest-lasting war in the world's military history.
Britain at this time was a true empire where the sun never set, and its sphere of influence was enough to be breathtaking. Like this small island of Zanzibar in eastern Africa, it is only a very small part of the composition of his empire that never sets.
However, no matter how powerful the armed forces were, they were only a passing cloud, and more than a decade later, in the First World War, the Allies led by the Germans had already made the Allies led by the British suffer. By the time of World War II, the British had almost perished under the nazi attacks in Germany (without British heroes such as Churchill).
Moreover, the British eventually lost their world hegemony in the devastation of the two world wars, and gave the throne to their younger brother, the United States, who was only looking at himself. Germany, which had twice caused great trouble to Britain, once went farther and farther down the road of force and fist, and finally swallowed the bitter fruit of the defeated war.
Of course, the Americans are now also following the old path of Big Brother Britain, attacking everywhere, controlling by force, trying to conquer the world with guns, although this can obtain temporary surrender, but it is obviously impossible to last, and their failure is sooner or later, you say? #War storm # #文化大拜年 #
