Feud - Famous Blood Feuds

Famous Blood Feuds

  • Three Kingdoms period, (184-280 AD) feuding Chinese warlords during the fall of the Han Dynasty.
  • Njál's saga, an Icelandic account of a Norse blood feud (960-1020; Norway, Ireland and Iceland)
  • The Mackintosh-Cameron feud (1290s-1665)
  • The Battle of the North Inch, Michaelmas, 1396, Scotland; the battle is fictionalised in the novel The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott
  • The Percy–Neville feud (1450s; England)
  • The Wars of the Roses (1455–1487; England)
  • The Talbot–Berkeley feud (1455–1485; England) (concurrent with the War of the roses)
  • The Gunn–Keith feud (1464-1978; Scotland)
  • The Campbell–MacDonald feud, including the Massacre of Glencoe (1692; Scotland)
  • The Regulator-Moderator War, (1839-1844, Republic of Texas)
  • The Donnelly–Biddulph community feud (1857–1880; Ontario, Canada)
  • The Lincoln County War (1878–1881; New Mexico, USA)
  • The Hatfield–McCoy feud (1878–1891; West Virginia & Kentucky, USA)
  • The Clanton/McLaury–Earp feud (see also Earp Vendetta Ride), also known as the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1881; Arizona, USA)
  • The Pleasant Valley War, also known as the "Tonto Basin Feud" (1882–1892; Arizona, USA)
  • The Capone–Moran feud, including the St. Valentine's Day massacre (1925–1930; Chicago, Illinois, USA)
  • The Castellammarese War (1929–1931; New York City, USA)
  • The Great Mafia War (1981–1983; Sicily, Italy)
  • The Feud of Scampia (2004–2005; Naples, Italy)
  • The Maguindanao Massacre (2009; Ampatuan, Philippines)

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