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indica posted...

Napoleon was once attacked by thousands of rabbits:

Napoleon Bonaparte was once one of the most powerful men in Europe, but he suffered an ignominious defeat at the hands (or paws) of rabbits. After a military victory, Napoleon's chief of staff organized a rabbit hunt to celebrate. Thousands of rabbits were brought in to be set loose, but instead of hopping away when the cages were opened, they turned to attack, swarming the partygoers. After trying and failing to shoo them away, the great Emperor Napoleon ran for the safety of his carriage.

Oh man that's almost as bad as the war of the emu. I can't recall all the details so I'll give a simple version. War vets from I wanna say Australia settled down somewhere and started up some farmland. Emus where helping themselves to their crop. So they ask for assistance and where granted a galling gun and 20k rounds of ammo. Everytime they'd start shooting the emu would scatter and they'd only kill a few. They ran out of ammo only having killed a tiny fraction of the emu.

So while the emu didn't rack up a body count they won the war of attrition.