It Was a Most Successful War

It Was a Most Successful War

Today marks the anniversary of the 1986 treaty which drew to a close the (largely unknown) Three Hundred Thirty-Five Year’s War. “Fought” in only the loosest sense of the word, the war was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, they being at the south-west corner of England off of Cornwall. Over the Three Hundred Thirty-Five years of this conflict, it having commenced in the spring of 1651, there were no casualties. In fact, no hostile act was taken by one party against another during the course of the war. Needless to say, this was a significant cost savings versus the usual expense of munitions.

There exists something of a technical dispute as to whether there was actually a war in that the Isles are not themselves a nation-state. That should not, however, detract from the successful resolution of the dispute.

This treaty is, however, in no manner any sort of record. In 146 BC, at the conclusion of the Third Punic War, Rome destroyed Carthage. It was not until 1985, after passage of 2131 years, that a peace treaty between Carthage (now a suburb of Tunis), and Rome was signed.