TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - There are many positive reasons why humans have participated in war over the past centuries.
Stopping or preventing genocide, for independence, or protecting the homeland from enemy attack, are reasons for war that can be accepted by common sense.
However, silly reasons can also make people go to war, as reported by Business Insider:
1. Oaken Bucket War
The Oaken Bucket War sounds more like a competition between university students, but in fact the Oaken Bucket War was really a war that occurred in 1325 between two Italian countries, Bologna and Modena, which killed 2,000 people.
It was really a proxy war between supporters of the Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy. What you need to know is that the war started because some Modena soldiers took buckets from the well of the city of Bologna.
The people of Modena won and managed to keep the bucket. At the Battle of Zappolino, some 32,000 Bolognese fought against 7,000 Modenese, and were chased from the battlefield after defeat.
2. Pig War
This is a war that could turn into a much larger conflict.
San Juan Island, located between the United States and Canada's Vancouver Island, was owned by American settlers and British employees of the Hudson Bay Company.
In practice the island was divided in two, with both countries having claims to the northwestern island and those claims created a lot of tension in the region.
The tension escalated in June 1859 when an American farmer shot a British wild boar for destroying his potato crop. An argument broke out and the farmer was almost captured by the British.
The US Army became aware of the situation and sent Captain George Pickett (later of Pickett's Charge) with a group of soldiers, who immediately declared the island American. Of course England responded by sending its best military unit, the Royal Navy.
For weeks, it looked like the stalemate would spark a larger war between the two camps, but a deal was eventually reached and both sides took joint control of the island.
3. Wild Dog War
Or also called the Incident at Petrich. This war was exactly as its name suggests, except that it resulted in massive deaths from the battle of 1925, which pitted 20,000 Greeks against 10,000 Bulgarians on the battlefield.
The cause was a dog that had escaped from a Greek soldier. The soldier chased the dog, even though it ran across Greece's border with Bulgaria. Bulgarian border guards, saw a Greek soldier running through their territory and shot him.
The Greeks then began an invasion of Bulgaria, occupying border towns and preparing to shell and capture the city of Petrich before the League of Nations intervened, negotiating a ceasefire that ended the war.
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