Most Unfair Wars in History

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Posters used
Dalrymple, Louis, "The duty of the hour; - to save her not only from Spain, but from a worse fate" 1898

Dalrymple, Louis, "Save me from my friends!" 1898

Gillam, F. Victor, Remember the Maine! And Don't Forget the Starving Cubans!
New York, May 7, 1898, volume 34, page 312, Arkell Publishing Company

Credit:
Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Robert De Graff
Narrator:

Jared S

[pacificostudios]

When the U.S. fired on Guam, the Spanish governor thought the U.S. Navy was saluting the Spanish flag. He did not even know the U.S. was at war with Spain until he was made a prisoner of the U.S.A. Despite the USS Charleston firing 13 shells at Guam's fortifications, no one was killed or injured, with all 54 Spanish surrendering peacefully to U.S. troops.

[SrGongalong]

Fun Fact: Communist Grenada kept the British Queen as Their head of state, Becoming a "Communist Monarchy"

[Postingdog]

That Action Figurine has been through a lot of unfair wars

[goop]

I believe the British "casualty" from the Anglo-Zanzibar War was a crew member on one of the ships accidentally dropping a shell on his foot
Edit: I want to come back to this comment and quickly further state the the man lived.

[LivingCrusader]

"If you ever find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck."
Lt. Col. Allen West

[christianblessingbalbio]

As a Filipino fan of the channel, the Spanish-American War is one of my favorite wars because of the Battle of Manila Bay as mentioned. I know the Americans were victorious because of their superior fleet, but I prefer the ships of the Spanish fleet. Though all of them are old, they're so interesting to know what ships that the Philippines' first colonizer had anchored at Manila Bay.

[isaacdepaula]

Colin Powell said in an interview on a Gulf War documentary something like "There's no such thing as a fair war, I'm a soldier, not a boxer"
He's right, even when you go with overwhelming firepower it's not a guarantee of victory. The other side can put an unexpected fight, you never know

[tedt]

You forgot one even more unfair than Ethiopia, Fascist Italy invasion of Albania, coward king zog flew the country and army disbanded and it was a huge italian army vs some guerilla who died fighting.

[SPECIALSTUDIESGROUP]

*"If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." - David Hackworth*

[yodaslovetoy]

Australia vs emus.
The aussies never stood a chance

[rexblade]

"If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." -John Steinbeck

"If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." -David Hackworth

The Russian invasion of Ukraine should not have been a fair fight, but Russia's tactics sucked and didn't plan properly, so here we are.

[nolancummings]

It’s funny that his ship to fight the British was called Glasgow 😂

[NeoN-PeoN]

In Operation Desert Storm, almost all of the Iraqi Air Force was destroyed on the ground.

[Nick]

About Operation Urgent Fury, one of my friends who was a former CH-53 pilot was a part of the campaign. He even sent me a photo of a CH-46 lifting from the assault ship based near the island.

[ModernNCRph]

The 1898 Battle of Manila Bay is so one-sided, we often label it in our history as a "mock battle"

[CYMotorsport]

3:00 the engagement was of course more than 38 minutes long . That was when threats were acted on. However taking over and occupying is an act of war. This is why I would say the football or 100 hours war is the best example as it’s got more casualties so there was actually an engagement but also proper declarations of war from opposing governments

[Paul]

In terms of Iraqi missiles bound for Israel being taken out that was also Australian SAS soldiers driving around in 4WDs taking out those installations. Not just yanks.

[kizi]

Now do the longest wars in history as a follow up

[RodolfoGaming]

The second italo-abyssinian war (1935-36) comes to mind just like the anglo-zanzubar and anglo-zulu war

[oliversherman]

The Anglo-Zanzibar War: *Lasts only 38 minutes*

Average battle in a CoD game: Amateurs