Nauruan Civil War (English Wikipedia)

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  • "The Nauru War - The Smallest Armed Conflict in History". MilitaryHistoryNow.com. 2013-02-18. Retrieved 2019-08-05. He described how two factions battled ceaselessly for control — one group was headed by Aweida, the king of the island. The other was an opposing rebel clan led by a white chief who claimed the throne for himself. The British fleet noted the situation, took Harris aboard and sailed away.
  • "The Nauru War - The Smallest Conflict in History". MilitaryHistoryNow.com. 2013-02-18. Retrieved 2022-01-03. The conflict, which was fuelled by equal parts locally-made palm wine and European armaments, broke out during a wedding feast on the three-kilometre-wide island in 1878. A disagreement between two guests over the finer points of dining etiquette grew hostile, at which point one of the debaters produced a pistol and began blazing away. A stray bullet struck the son of a clan chief killing him. The island's factions, who were already nursing old grudges, used the occasion to attack one another. The fighting escalated from there.

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