- The Shortest War in History 🧵-
The record for the shortest conflict in history is detained by the UK and the Zanzibar Protectorate (1/6) #svagaiature #History #UK #Historia #Trivia
The record for the shortest conflict in history is detained by the UK and the Zanzibar Protectorate (1/6) #svagaiature #History #UK #Historia #Trivia
The 25th of August 1896 the casus belli was the succession between a pro-British sultan and a new one, Khalid, who hadn't as favourable views on the British as his predecessor (2/6)
By British order the protectorate’s sultan had to obtain the permission of the British to rule, so the Crown sent an ultimatum to the new sultan ordering him to leave the royal palace or else his actions would have had consequences (3/6)
The new sultan so bunkered down in the palace with his royal guard and some milita men, but in the morning of the 25th, after the expiration of the ultimatum, the Royal Navy started a massive naval bombardment of the royal palace that lasted 38 minutes (4/6)
The sultan's forces sustained roughly 500 casualties, while only one British sailor was injured. The sultan received asylum in the German consulate before escaping to German East Africa (5/6)
The British quickly placed the pro-British Sultan Hamoud in power at the head of a puppet government. The war marked the end of the Zanzibar Sultanate as a sovereign state and the start of a period of heavy British influence (6/6)
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