War, the Long and Short of It
June 17, 2007
Throughout military history, many short-term conflicts have been recorded but, by all accounts, the Anglo-Zanzibar War was the shortest war in the history of the World. The origin of the conflict was a territorial dispute during the late 1800’s that focused upon the trade interests of Germany and Great Britain in Eastern Africa and specifically the small island of Zanzibar, which is located off of the eastern coast of Africa.
