Current Events > lol at The Battle of Karansebes (1788)

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes

tl;dr: The army were setting up camp, some of the infantry got into a fight over alcohol and fired a shot, then one of them yelled "Turks! Turks!", and it just snowballed from there.

Almost as embarrassing as going to war over Ohio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War

I've always been kind of skeptical that this actually happened. It just seems like the kind of thing that someone would make up to make an army look incompetent.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I've always been kind of skeptical that this actually happened. It just seems like the kind of thing that someone would make up to make an army look incompetent.

You severely underestimate the incompetence of the Habsburg empires.

It isn't a proper story of Habsburg incompetence if it doesn't involve Franz Conrad von Htzendorf

Ottoman Empire literally winning by doing absolutely nothing.

Also from the comment section: "Reminds me when US marines and Canadian troops (34000 soldiers) launched an attack to concur Kiska (an Alutian island) from the Japanese who had withdrawn 18 days earlier. In spite of that they succeeded to kill 314 comrades -- its called friendly (sic) fire. And Im sure there are many more examples of "dumb" battles."

lol was this a thing?

Damn Karans

GiftedACIII posted...

Ottoman Empire literally winning by doing absolutely nothing.

Also from the comment section: "Reminds me when US marines and Canadian troops (34000 soldiers) launched an attack to concur Kiska (an Alutian island) from the Japanese who had withdrawn 18 days earlier. In spite of that they succeeded to kill 314 comrades -- its called friendly (sic) fire. And Im sure there are many more examples of "dumb" battles."

lol was this a thing?

American and Canadian forces landed on opposite sides of Kiska and mistook one another for the enemy. There were about 30 friendly fire deaths, and a further 70 deaths when a destroyer hit a Japanese mine in the harbor.

Don't get your history from internet comments.