LONG AND SHORT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 35, 30 March 1942, Page 5

LONG AND SHORT

WARS OF HISTORY

An Italian official has warned his people that the war may last another ten years. ll' it does it will be the longest war—l 2 years in all —since 1648, when the Thirty Years' War ended. Of the famous wars, the Trojan lasted nine years, the Peloponnesian 27, the First Punic War 23, the Second Punic War 17, the Hundred Years' War 114. The War of the Roses was another 30 years' war, 1455-1485. Wars have lasted centuries, with lapses in between or with various | phases. The Saracenic Wars lasted from 634 to 1492 —858 years. The wars of the Barbaric Invasion of Europe lasted from A.D. 375 to 800. The' wars of the Crusaders lasted 175 years. War broke out between Spain and the Netherlands in 1568. and ended 80 years later. In contrast was the Seven Weeks' W T ar between Prussia and Austria in 1866. The first Avar on the American continent Avas King William's War, 1689-1697. The second was Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713. The French and Indian Wars; lasted seven years, the war of the American Revolution eight, the war of 1812 two, the Civil War l'our, the Spanish-American war less than four months. The World War lasted four years three and a half months.