@_historyunveiled: The Kettle War (German: Kesselkrieg, Dutch: Keteloorlog) was a short conflict between the Austrian Empire under Emperor Joseph II and the Dutch Republic in 1784. ⚔️ The cause was Joseph II’s attempt to reopen the Scheldt River to international shipping, which the Dutch had blocked for centuries to protect Antwerp’s trade interests. 🚢 In October 1784, Austria sent several warships down the river, but the Dutch responded with only one small vessel, the Dolfijn. ⛵ It fired a single cannon shot that struck a large soup kettle on an Austrian ship. 🍲 The incident caused panic, and the Austrian flotilla quickly retreated and surrendered. 🏳️ Emperor Joseph II formally declared war, but the only “victory” his troops achieved was occupying an abandoned fort that local farmers had been using as a vegetable garden. 🥬 A peace treaty soon followed, and the war went down in history as one of the shortest, most absurd, and most humiliating wars ever fought. 📜   #HistoryTime #historyfacts #kettlewar #DidYouKnow #education

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