Huge wars that most people forgot or never heard of.

What are some military conflicts that most people haven't heard about before, or were simply pushed aside and forgotten about in time?

My pick has to go for the War of the Triple Alliance. It was fought around the time of the American Civil War, when little Paraguay, ruled by its dictator Francisco Solano López, declared war on far bigger Brazil and Argentina, with Uruguay joining in later. This was a titanic war for South America. It virtually destroyed Paraguay. It lost 60-70% of its entire population, where maybe less than 30,000 males were left alive in the entire country afterwards.



I think the war's fairly well known in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, but it's virtually unknown around the world. I just can't get over that idea...losing 70% of your entire country's population to a suicidal war. And, 150 years later, the whole idea that this conflict ever took place only arrived to me a few weeks ago.

Any other ones we can think of?

My first thought would the War of Spanish Succession but the Korean War gets close to 0 attention and is often overshadowed be Vietnam.

War of 1812 or Spanish American War, for America at least.

Oh yeah, pitty little Paraguay wanting a piece of the ocean, too bad Brazil was so strong, General Osório and General Caxias were the ones that basically won the war.

Also this was the biggest ever war fought in Latin America.

Korean War and War of 1812.

Known in Mexico as the war of northern aggression. :lol: :lol: :lol:

It had nothing to do with Mexico.

Oh right I was thinking of a different one.
Spanish American War was the war with that exploded warship in Cuba, right?

Damn, I was gonna say that.

Whenever we talk about the Russian revolution, we cite World War One even though we don't directly say it, because if you don't know, losses in world war one on the eastern front was a huge reason to bring down Tsarism and the Monarchy as a whole.

Whenever we talk about Lenin, Kalinin, Molotov, ect. these men may all apply in a way if you think about it.

Punic wars are forgot by alot of people, the thirty year war, the 1066 wars, war of 1812, Korean war, war of Austrian recession, french-Indian war.

The first thing that came to my mind was the War of Spanish Succession, as Mayor said, but The Seven Year's war was pretty important as well as the War of Austrian Succession. The Phillipine-American War wasn't so much huge as it was just horrid, and most people haven't heard of it.

Well, when we're talking about wars in the 19th century, they're not often spoken of or shown in documentaries on basic cable all the way up to satellite TV, they have to be taught if anything in a history class in school.

Taiping Rebellion.

About 20 million died.

The servile wars where really important. American-Spanish war is also very forgotten. An Lushan Rebellion was also very bad but forgotten.

Aww fuck I remember that now, guess you're right lol.
Yeah that was pretty massive a war.

The Salvadoran Civil War. (3rd longest revolution in Latin america)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_Civil_War

~75,000 dead

The Guatemalan Civil War. (2nd longest civil war in Latin America)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War

200,000 dead and missing


Mind you these are very small countries.

But what about the An Lushan Rebellion?

The French Expedition into Mexico in 1862.
The War of 1812.
The Zulu Wars.
Russo-Japanese war.
The Crimean War.
Franco-Prussian War.

Seconded.

And there are a ton of long-forgotten Asian-Theatre wars.
There might be some bias in the teaching selections, which is why nobody hears of these wars.

What about the War of the Roses.