Anglo-Zanzibar War
She took part in the Anglo-Zanzibar War in 1896, the shortest war in history.
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Famous quotes containing the word war:
“The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting—the war and the revolution—and the character of the accused—revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power—you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)