The 335 Years' War: Every Month

Towards the end of the English Civil War, the Dutch fought a war with a faction of royalists that would last for over 3 centuries. Technically.
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Music used:
"Crossing the Chasm", "The Endless", "Full On", and "Five Armies" by Kevin MacLeod
found at www.incompetech.com
Sources:
- “Dutch Proclaim End of War Against Britain’s Scilly Isles.” The New York Times, April 18, 1986, National edition, sec. D.
- www.scillyarchive.com/page/335...

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Ah, my favorite April Fools Day tradition: mapping wars that are technically real but most people would think is a made up April Fools joke.

[@galgalon6862]

:)

[@InquisitorXarius]

Nice

[@StarterOffical-Jousha-lf6ig]

Wassup April Fools day

[@juelzbrown]

this is crazy

[@izaaniqbal1309]

15000 years war when?

[@quakeknight9680]

What a Scilly war

[@Nikolapoleon]

The Dutch knew better than to attack. You never go up against a Scillonian when DEATH is on the line!

[@jordandino417]

Ye

[@Robi2009]

good one XD

[@AAAT111]

Ah, one of their famous wars

[@AgiHammerthief]

the best: utterly boring

[@Spiderfisch]

Imagine making a war map that doesnt even show every participant on it

[@1224chrisng]

Notice how the sea is blue? that's because the Dutch preemptively filled in the entire sea to use it as a military base. Unfortunately, it sank in the 1700s. For more in this, the poet Richard Rolle wrote a treatise around that time

[@pyromanic8]

@@1224chrisng I applaud you for that name

[@charlie8344]

The Dutch was gonna attack with naval guns but retreated I think

[@omarfarooqkalson1505]

Bro had the audacity to show the entire timescale of the war. Good

[@esbendit]

This is not even the only such war. A shorter one happened between Denmark and the spanish town Huéscar. The city council in Huéscar declared war on Denmark in 1809 as part of the napoleonic wars. Peace was finaly reached in 1981 when a local spanish historian realised that there was a "conflict".

[@andrzejnadgirl2029]

Spanish historians during 179 years - "it's siesta time!"

[@qhu3878]

its not even the only one in english history, there was a town that changed hands between england and scotland so often you had to say you declared war on it alongside england/scotland. because of this russia was at war with a random town in northernmost england for like 400 years

[@Uthedudeful]

@@qhu3878 Berwick-Upon-Tweed, it was the Crimean War which started in 1854 and (allegedly) ended with a Treaty between Berwick-Upon-Tweet and Imperial Russia in 1914. However, much to my disappointment this one seems to be a fiction, sadly.

[@qhu3878]

@@Uthedudeful i forgot what town and when, thanks for that

[@xander1052]

Technically Rome and Carthage never signed a treaty to end the third punic war... until the Cities of Tunis and Rome did in 1985, ending 2131 years of hostilities.

[@texaskosmonawt9987]

I can only imagine how mundane the process was to make this by only changing the dates and the names on the map.

[@rorythecomrade4461]

Depends on what software used. If he uses for example, gimp for the dates, you can streamline that process really easily. But if he uses microsoft paint for that process it'd be an absolute NIGHTMARE. But considering the dates stay in place and don't shake around, I assume the process is streamlined.

[@afafila]

@@rorythecomrade4461How do you streamline the dates

[@rorythecomrade4461]

@afafila You have it open in gimp, and export the images every time you want a frame. You have a text box open and you edit it accordingly. That way it stays in a neat line. I may not be explaining it well but look up gimp tutorials, it is worth it if you make videos like this.

[@GS02]

As I counted the whole thing would have around 4020 frames.

[@cavalcadeofbobs3559]

​@@rorythecomrade4461 He uses PowerPoint and Microsoft paint, he revealed his method in a video

[@thelakisleaf5503]

Must be exhausted after making this. 4236 months covered in painstaking detail. Truly your magnum opus

[@Carmela-bixoxo]

Truly suspenseful.

[@decay7883]

what a beautiful glowing user you are 👍

[@anastastsankov5479]

When animosity between two people lasts so long that both can't remember the exact reason for the conflict eventually.

[@occam7382]

Are you kidding? It takes way less than this for that to happen.

[@guard6069]

@@occam7382 Romans and Persians fighting for almost 1000 years just for both to be decimated by the Mongols and the Turkic tribes (They still don't know why they were fighting in the first place, probably for some random land in Mesopotamia or Syria nobody cares about)

[@JonBerry555]

This technically makes WW2 a three way war as the Isle of Sily was fighting both Germany and the Dutch while Germany and the Dutch were fighting each other.

[@BetaDude40]

Wasn't it already kind of a three-way war in Europe because of Finland? They weren't exactly Axis nor Allied.

[@JonBerry555]

@@BetaDude40 Kind of, but I would consider that three way. If they were fighting Germany and the Soviets, then sure, but to be three way all 3 belligerents must be fighting each other.

[@Hannibal-Barca]

China fighting Soviets in Xinjiang

[@PoopDog7771-ei8kv]

@@JonBerry555they did fight the Germans in 1944-1945

[@JonBerry555]

@@PoopDog7771-ei8kv There was only a 3 day overlap were Finland was technically at war with both sides. However, Peace talks between Finland and the USSR began about a month prior. A Cease Fire was declared about 2 weeks prior to the official end of hostilities. And most importantly part of the Peace agreement was that Finland had to expel German troops, which was required to begin before the official armistice was to take affect. So I don't really count it as a 3-way war. Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War#Ceasefire_and_peace

[@sirkingguy708]

Wether it’s a 38 minute or a 335 year long war, you can always count on the British being involved

[@occam7382]

Ah, the British Empire. They always find some way to screw around, no matter where, no matter when, no matter what. (God Save The King begins ominously playing in the background) ...God, help us all.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Laugh a 2500-years-long greek war (No one bothered signing peace after the Peloponnesean War between Athens and Sparta and this mistake was only fixed in the 20th century)

[@CursedAnqxl]

man, the english managed to hold off the far stronger and superior forces of the dutch for over 300 years, very impressive.

[@Versuffe]

How did I find you again?

[@_Stand.With.Palestine_]

1 Minutes Of Silence For Those Who Fight For There Country For 300 Year's 😢

[@accusedtoppat]

r/ihadastroke

[@dirtegarbage]

@@accusedtoppatits perfectly legible

[@RNKel1]

No

[@stanleystriker7065]

F

[@Awibrahor]

There is no apostrophe in a plural.

[@SaishoVibes]

Highest quality mapping video of all time

[@verymuchnotslovile]

fr

[@SPAD_Sudoku]

I honestly thought the Dutch would win for a second

[@vincentsmit1935]

Two more weeks

[@prion42]

Surely the war ended when the royalist force ceased to exist, resulting in a dutch victory.

[@theorangeoof926]

@@prion42Dutch outlasting the regime

[@NiskaMagnusson]

when the British conservative government is forced to concede defeat in the election this year the Dutch will use this as a time to justify their claim to the Island, they will then invade, establish a puppet regime under a random Cornish farmer, then fast-track the New Scilly Republic's incorporation into the EU 5 minutes later thanks to legistlation brought in by the war in Ukraine, the UK will then send the navy to reclaim the Island only to have the entire EU forced to take defensive measures to destroy the UK's aggressive intervention, the UK thanks to incessant budget cuts since 2008 will only be able to repond with 2 destroyers and an angry fishing boat, this signalling the end of the UK and the start of the Dutch Empire. as a resident of the UK this is my hopes and dreams anyway.

[@ilikecheese4518]

do the finno korean hyperwar next

[@Bulbs_Productions]

Yes

[@FalkyRocket2222]

okay but that holland disappearing timing with the music at 5:32

[@ennui9745]

That means that there was a period of time when the UK was at war with nobody, and then the Netherlands reappeared to continue the war. 😂

[@bane2201]

@@ennui9745 Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands: _"I didn't hear no bell."_

[@seneca983]

@@bane2201 I'd like to think that the 'S' stands for "Super".

[@scotandiamapping4549]

I love how you remembered the changes going on, such as the Commonwealth/Protectorate disintegrating, Great Britian unifying, and the Dutch Republic becoming the Batavian Republic (I assume, I haven't gotten that far into the video yet) Edit: I got there as soon as I finished typing this comment lol

[@sigmanation6957]

Unironically tho this is a good example of how you shouldn't get tunnel vision when looking into historical events. You can totally miss the bigger picture on some things.

[@doppel232]

What?

[@trashbuckets2120]

Incredible work! The amount of research you must have done to show such detailed front line changes is truly amazing!

[@calus-superiorjackass3906]

The inhabitants of the islands don't actually want the area to be called the "Scilly Islands", but prefer the "Isles of Scilly" because, well they're not silly. 😂

[@ASocialistTransGirl]

being silly isn’t a bad thing though :>

[@evanthompson7494]

I love that the map is just indecipherable. I have no idea where this is geographically from the information provided.

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

Southwest of England. That peninsula in the top right is Cornwall.

[@vincentsmit1935]

Bro doesn't know his ingerland shapes💀

[@beesinpyjamas9617]

well for starters i think the light blue is the ocean

[@deutschekanadische]

@@beesinpyjamas9617🤯

[@kjj26k]

​@@beesinpyjamas9617 Huh?! I thought it was the sky? Is this not Skylanders lore?

[@dragonrykr]

Another similar situation happened between Montenegro and Japan. When the Russian Empire declared war on Japan in 1904, the Principality of Montenegro, being a close Russian ally at the time, also declared war on Japan, even though it didn't really send soldiers (except for a few notable volunteers). As the peace treaty of Portsmouth overlooked Montenegro entirely, the state of war between Japan and Montenegro de jure persisted, all the way til 2006 when Montenegro restored its independence and Japan dispatched an envoy with a letter of recognition and also stating that the war is officially over. Not many foreigners know of this peculiarity, but here in Montenegro it's an interesting trivia moment of history we like to recount. And it's even present on the Wikipedia page of Russo-Japanese war

[@submarino006]

Andorra didn't sign peace after ww1 until 1939, I think. It was a close call for not getting invaded

[@Thomaas551]

Truly suspenseful

[@meowcat7124]

5:15 typo in Batavian. Funny how I wouldn't pay attention to this usually, but when it's like the only thing to look at, it becomes very noticeable.

[@NotFlappy12]

It totally undermines this video's credibility smh my head

[@Siddingsby]

Literally unwatchable.

[@fguens]

Such events occur rarely, but there is another example. Among the Allied Powers that gathered to sign a peace treaty with Turkey after World War One, San Marino forgot to send a delegation for the treaty so Turkey and San Marino are still practically at war xd

[@autumn4639]

I'm Turkish myself, and I can confirm that the people of my country live every day of their lives in fear that we will be one day be invaded by the Sanmarinese.

[@F3uertrunk3n]

At the conclusion of the war, the Dutch ambassador joked that it must have been frightening to the islanders that the Dutch could have struck at any moment.

[@helloimskip]

The most exhilarating conflict I've ever seen. No more of this brutality

[@Kumimono]

Man, the Napoleonic Wars were a real rollercoaster ride for this small island. Man, I wonder when I last heard Five Armies... Critical Role Season 1?

[@kjj26k]

I thought I recognized that hanging note... "18 misses?!"

[@escen_schaferin]

9:50 the netherlands disappearing tells such a story 💔

[@proboy304]

Because of nazi germany

[@meowcat7124]

I love how it's a very high-effort shitpost, even changing names of countries as their history progresses

[@JenniferinIllinois]

The amount of work that went into this is daunting. You didn't miss any of the minute details of Dutch and British military operations. I mean we're talking 300+ years of military conflict here. Kudos to you! Now take a well deserved rest. 🤣🤣🤣

[@marvelgeek9577]

Next year, do the Sealand “Civil War”

[@RealUlrichLeland]

That wasn't a civil war it was a foreign invasion by a german gangster.

[@usuarioanonimo5899]

O the Invasion of Sealand, that happened de facto

[@garion742]

Anyone else interested in what the analytics say is the point where people were finally like "I'm good to skip ahead now, right?" 😂

[@luapslev5826]

It's like when Berwick-upon-Tweed technically prolonged the Crimean War until 1966

[@Gams619]

Hey man, great video! But I think you left many things unexplained and it would be great if were to release an every day version

[@MuneebMakes]

lol

[@chingqing0504]

Every hour best

[@TheRockstarRampage]

I'm glad to see such an in-depth video about this situation. I think we could all use a little bit more in-depth knowledge over this long-lasting and horrific war.

[@balericeohiselikki]

This was very informative! I can barely keep up with what's happening!

[@jakebranch2599]

The most war ever

[@nicolas2419]

This video make in evidence all the complexity of this forgotten war. All its fast changes and switches are really impressive! Great jobs to show us that!

[@ACartoonFanUwU]

Great work! It must have been taken you a lot of time

[@mirandak3273]

Thank you so much for this informative video about the History of the war.

[@Kevin63GachaandGMOD]

I know it's not a joke because I heard about it not long ago in a little video from my country but thank you very much for the video Emperortigerstar.

[@m3gawither7734]

Truly astounding to see the vast changes over such a time period, I think something moved somewhere.

[@liamjames5405]

Watch in 0.25X for all the hard details

[@Dourios_96]

Can you do hour by hour? I don't know if month by month covers it as well as it should, especially when the dutch abandoned Britain in 1941 (even if they rejoined 4 years later), this conflict and its ever lasting consequences world wide deserve to be more thorougly covered

[@LambdaCreates]

1 hour every 5 frames, 24 frames per second 335 years = 2934600 hours 14673000 frames = 611375 seconds = 169 hours, 49 minutes, 35 seconds Are you SURE you want to watch a 169 hour video? That would take forever to load.

[@Dourios_96]

@@LambdaCreates lmfao you actually sat down and did the math my brother? I thought it was obvious that I meant it as a joke

[@LambdaCreates]

​@@Dourios_96 I was thinking you just didn't understand the insane length and was like "hey an hour by hour version would be pretty cool". I usually take some things a bit too seriously because it's hard to distinguish modern sarcasm(joking so hard it's realistic) from real requests.

[@Dourios_96]

@@LambdaCreates yes I suppose its difficult to distinguish sarcasm in comments

[@peccantis]

Love how the music's swells and lulls follow the intricacies of the tensions of this fascinating conflict.

[@TroysMoviesGaming]

What an interesting video, I never thought it would even be possible to map out such a complex war EVERY MONTH. So many combatants and so much action, You are insane ❤❤❤

[@KentoKei]

This was such an intense war I couldn't stop watching! I can't believe what happened in 1852!

[@KnownNiche1999]

That was exhaustion must've been crazy 🥶

[@Falkriim]

Nah nah it was just a bug. The war really should have ended once the Royalist holdout had collapsed.

[@md_studios9819]

This puts the 80 years war to shame

[@Doolpie2xDoolp]

emperor tigerstar sure having a blast animating with dis one!!!!

[@Copyright_Infringement]

Informative!

[@AquaranSocialistRepublic]

Well, this is a perfect April Fools' Day video to make. And since you're keeping it up as a tradition, we are definitely going to be waiting for the next one.

[@sststr]

I wouldn't have even believed the name Scilly Islands, but that I've recently been reading "The Secret Glory" by Arthur Machen where he references them.

[@OliverJGibson]

Great video on this overlooked bit of history! Didn't the 'war' end in 1986 though?

[@TheDarkCeratosaurus]

YOU FINALLY DID IT

[@00dawn]

I hate when the months move so fast, I can barely keep up with all the border changes!

[@tomwarren5580]

When will we get the every hour version?

[@supers4975]

So when are we mapping the Third Punic War (it never offically ended until 1985 when mayors of Rome and Carthage signed a symbolic peace treaty 2130 years after the actual war ended)

[@occam7382]

Carthage is still a thing? I thought that had been reduced to ruins centuries ago.

[@rakdos36]

@@occam7382 It was but julius cesar then refounded it in the first century bce with roman colonists.

[@occam7382]

@@rakdos36, no, I mean after the Roman Empire collapsed (both of them).

[@rakdos36]

@@occam7382 it still does. i once knew a tunisinian female immigrant who grew up there.

[@occam7382]

@@rakdos36, ah. I see.

[@atc_wro]

Had me on the edge of my seat

[@VGMLucifier]

*Batavian* Republic or “Bavatian” Republic like in your video for the Netherlands serving as France’s puppet/client state during the Revolutionary period/Napoleonic Wars? Either way great video and happy April!

[@Obvious_Endermite]

Best mapping video ever!! 🗣

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

I'm not sure this is a fully accurate map... surely the coastline of the Scilly isles must have changed by at least one pixel within the last 335 years, right? Tut tut, SMH.

[@singusaustinite]

greatest april fools video of all time

[@paulisaperson0516]

I JUST rewatched this video

[@enti0beking]

i first learned about this war when we went to scilly, they are very proud of their century-long fighting spirit, and shipwrecks but mostly the shipwrecks cuz they get cool loot

[@scotandiamapping4549]

*Game Starts* 0:15 England: Dammit they killed me! 0:26 Netherlands: You're taking a while to respawn, you good? England: Yeah it's just my internet. 0:33 Eng: There we go, let's get back to it. 5:33 Net: Hang on I gotta go do this thing with France, be right back. *Netherlands is AFK* *Netherlands has returned* 5:40 Net: Sorry, I'm back. 9:53 Net: Ugh hang on I gotta do this thing with Germany, be right back. *Netherlands is AFK* 10:03 *Netherlands has returned* Net: Sorry, last time I promise 11:21 Eng: Oh crap look at the time, we gotta get off. Net: K, see ya tommorow. *Game ends*

[@verymuchnotslovile]

fr

[@michael120.]

(seeing the upload notification) “what? what country fought for 335 years?” … “oh yeah, it’s april first”

[@scotandiamapping4549]

This did actually happen by the way. There was no active fighting but the Dutch did really declare war on the Scilly Isles and then just forgot for 335 years

[@michael120.]

@@scotandiamapping4549 that is pretty funny actually i didn’t even know this was real on top of the video

[@casteddu6740]

It's funny to think that while fighting the Axis in ww2 the Dutch were still technically at war with the British

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

Now, this is pretty intense!!

[@jared_bowden]

I looked this up, and it's not even clear whether the war was ever declared to begin with. _Just_ in case, though, Britain and the Netherlands decided to sign a peace treaty.

[@Randomstuffs261]

The most deadly war in history

[@someonesilence3731]

Truly a horrendous, bloody war with many casualties and warcrimes.

[@thesillyone3837]

Next year do all of the 38 minute war

[@aim_da_idiot666]

Lets have a minute of silence to mourn the people that have perished in this war.

[@essexclass8168]

Okay but what about mapping the final stages of the Thrid Punic War from 146 BC - 1985 AD?

[@SqurtieMan]

That music really lines up

[@gusshackleford8370]

That was intense!

[@BasileosHerodou]

Bro can you make a timelapse of the third punic war whose peace treaty was only signed in 1985?

[@APF_27]

Literally 1984

[@brenatevi]

The music is more intense than the war was.

[@andrefarfan4372]

Nice video

[@Santiaram]

Every time that a change occurs: 0:15 0:33 2:07 5:02 5:14 5:25 5:33 5:40 5:43 9:53 10:03 Just that

[@AdistuffRBX]

Is the last video he’s gonna make before he gets 500K subs? 😮 It’s truly fitting

[@Many-names]

Good 500K special

[@pizzagamer7381]

The music syncs up perfectly with Holland disappearing LMFAOOOO

[@Baboonmomma]

Can you do a WW2 video but from the POV of my house?

[@caos1925]

my favorite year of this war was 1660

[@tyrannosauruscock]

Mine was 1848

[@perturbedbatman2009]

Man, July 1810 to November 1813 was wild.

[@stepanpytlik4021]

Wow. So intense.

[@Zquirrelthing]

thrilling war

[@MarioFreuend]

Man, do i love the *333* years war, what a classic!

[@alanmichael5619]

7:31 such a huge twist!

[@md_studios9819]

Yo, new soundtrack vid just dropped

[@Dragonite_Tom]

335 years of most eventful actions ever seen

[@Thrlta]

The video mappers' version of padding out the runtime 😆

[@niluscvp]

Damn, you stopped the timeline right before the Netherlands is planning to polder towards them

[@GoofySillyGuy]

this is very thrilling

[@theMoerster]

Today would be a good day to get that 500,000th subscriber....