25 Wild ‘Don’t Pick a Fight You Can’t Win’ Moments from History
‘The French and Indian War in which both the French and the Indians lost’
Despite a couple of highly inadvisable invasions in recent history, going to war is generally a carefully considered thing. The best outcome isn’t great, and the worst can end empires. It’s for those reasons that you don’t often see smaller players flipping their middle finger to the world, because they know that they’ll probably lose the fight.
Still, whether through pride, naivete or sheer stubbornness, there have been times when someone’s started an inadvisable fight and received exactly the expected results. Unfortunately for them, no history book is going to include, “if they’d pulled it off, they would have been legends, though, right?”
Below, thanks to historians on Reddit, are some of those less-than-intelligent conflicts…