I think Henry VIII.He's **** mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
Henry VIII was not a war, neither was he that mad (you know for some one who married his brothers fiance and was always second best till Arthur died). He did some good things it is just a shame people remember him for his wives then again his reaction to the Yorkshire rebellion ws a bit harsh (killing alot of people becasue of a "ilgramage of grace". He even had some military victories (battle of the spurs) and helped England to beccome a centre of European politics, granted it didn't last long becasue his divorce messed it all up.
Aww mracecombat necroe'd a thread =(. Anyways, now that I'm here, I'm going to have to split my opinions in two. Most brutal war, war with the highest body count, and war with the most profound impact. Most Brutal: Spanish Inquisition. Burning people alive, crushing them slowly, not to mention the various tortures implemented. Most famous is probably the Spanish tickler. And the people were all innocent! *shakes head*. First rule of Survival: Don't mess with the Catholics, even if you don't believe in god. They'll burn you alive, crush you, drown you, whatever. You know that's a joke right? Highest Body Count: World War 2. Millions of Jews, hundreds of thousands killed in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings alone, and from hundreds of thousands to millions of soldiers killed. Most Profound Impact: World War 2. Various civil wars would have the most profound impact on a singular country in which the civil war took place, but this is a bigger picture.
I would have to say Vietnam. Maybe not as many deaths but some of them were pretty terrible. The holes with the traps, the feces on a stick (no joke), mustard gas, and the other brutal killing methods terrify me. The Inquisition was bad as well, simply for the mass murders through torture, and WWI and II were brutal because of the mass killings (innocent and non) and the chemical weapons.
Also I have to say there may have been some brutal parts to past wars that have been lost in history. I imagine there were some bad parts to Ghengis Khan, Alexander, the Barbarian Invasion of Rome, Athens vs Sparta (forgot the name of the war), etc.
I think one of the worst wars in history is no doubt, Battle of the Somme. Fighting in the trenches for survival like animals and people were screaming as they were getting killed in the mud by by bullets, landmines, the bayonet or even by a rock. The foul stench of dead bodies, and no one gained any advantages really, and it was just horrible. All wars are horrible thats true, but something about this war really speaks to me in a very, very sad and very, very brutal. The only thing the British and the French gained (except for the loss of hundreds of thousands soilders,even more) they penetrated a total of 6 miles into German territory. They failed to capture alot of objectives. And thus was the death upon all, if they were not killed by enemy soilders, then alot of diseases would. The death rate was very, very high. And the death toll was estimated to be over a million and is also known as one of the bloodiest military operations ever recorded.
Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word. â â"Friedrich Steinbrecher
And Captain von Hentig, described the Battle of the Somme as "the muddy grave of the German Field Army
World War 2. Millions of Jews, hundreds of thousands killed in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings alone, and from hundreds of thousands to millions of soldiers killed.
Total count 50-70 million. and let's not forget that the population has more than doubled since then. I agree that it was the worst. Also the Japanise front was almost as brutal as Vietnam's.
if we're doing it by body count or percent of population dead, all fingers should all obviously point towards the US Civil War.
It still (after 150 years) has killed more soldiers than all other wars put together, and if we only count the war itself and not the situations around the war (ie: holocaust), then it should definitely win.
if we're doing it by body count or percent of population dead, all fingers should all obviously point towards the US Civil War.
How? Only a about 600,000 were killed in the US Civil War. I still don't understand why people continue to confuse American loss of life as being more important than loss of life. More died in the English civil war that happened a few hundred years before; more died in the World Wars I doubt the US civil war would even make it into a top 10 of wars by fatality. Like I say I don't understand the peole who say the US civil war was worse because of death toll.
yea Civil war was pretty bad 17 year old kids blasting eachother's heads off from 20 feet away. Then haveing their limbs cut off with out pain killers
Most of the deaths and injuries were from (A) Hunger (scarce food resources + in enemy's land + scorched earth/destroy everything method with earlier Yankee Captains) (B) Coldness/freezing/hypothermia/etc (C) Infections from small injuries
