Before the technical revolution and the advanced simpleness of instant communication , news of an armistice did n’t always journey as quickly as needed . In other case , general may have strain a resolution while soldiers on the outskirt of their territory disagree . Here are a few exemplar of battles fought after thewarended .
1. Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans is often remembered as one of the most decisive American victories in theWar of 1812 . It ’s also often remembered as an ill-famed battle - fought - after - the - war - ended , though themoniker is only half true . It ’s true that the battle , which was fought on January 8 , 1815 , acquire office after the Treaty of Ghent was sign in Belgium on December 24 , 1814 , and even after the accord had been ratified by the Prince Regent ( the futureKing George IV ) . But PresidentJames Madisonand the American Senate did not sign the accord until February 16 , allowing the engagement to feign an arguable level of tactical grandness .
2. Battle of Prague
The Battle of Prague actually begin before the destruction of theThirty Years ’ War . Most of Europe was mesh in a long , muddled difference of opinion over major religious and political differences . While a delegation of representatives from various land meet in Münster and Osnabrück , a Swedish US Army laid siege to Prague .
Both the serenity talks and the battle drag on for month . The diplomatic proceedings led to a series of treaties , have a go at it as thePeace of Westphalia , which changed European political boundaries and solidified a continental mention of sure spiritual freedoms . Though the Swedish delegate sign the Treaty of Osnabrück on October 24 , 1648 , ending hostility with the Holy Roman Empire and its allies , Swedish forces press for another eight day before intelligence reach Prague on November 1 .
3. Pontiac’s Rebellion
Pontiac ’s Rebellion was not a individual battle . Rather , it was a continuation of the Seven Years ’ War ( 1754 - 1763 ) . The difference of opinion raged worldwide , but in the North American field , Gallic colonists found themselves outnumber against the British . They recruited heavy for reinforcement from Native American group who prevail grievances against British colonists . When the war ended and France ceded much of its former territory to Britain , the policy of colonial governor distract local aboriginal American tribes . Warriors from across the Great Lakes and neighboring area joined together to force the British out of their territory , head by Ottawa leader ChiefPontiac .
The enmity escalated over a flow of 16 calendar month and run to a serial of negotiations from 1764 to 1766 . In one of the battle ’s more worrisome present moment , British soldiers are reported to have given the Native Americansblankets contaminated with smallpoxin an attempt to taint them with the disease . Tragically , many of them did become flat ofsmallpox , though whether the eruption can be trace to the infected blankets is inconclusive .
4. Fort Bowyer
Theattack on Fort Bowyeris lesser known and less celebrated than its forerunner at New Orleans , perhaps in part because it was an American frustration . After being routed byAndrew Jackson ’s scout group at Chalmette Plantation outside New Orleans , a British contingent of at least 3000 troops sail east and ensconce on a stockade fortification on the lip of Mobile Bay . They besiege the garrison until its air force officer surrendered on February 11 , 1815 , but the triumph was forgetful lived . A few day after the British assumed ascendence , word of honor of the Treaty of Ghent finally trickled to the south , and Fort Bowyer was returned to American force .
5. Battle of Palmito Ranch
Although Confederate GeneralRobert E. Leesurrendered his army at Appomattox on April 9 , 1865 , and new appointed President Andrew Johnson declared an official conclusion to hostilities on May 10 , theAmerican Civil Warlingered in Texas . Near the gulf port of Los Brazos de Santiago , along the Rio Grande , Union and Confederate forces clashed for roughly 24 hours during May 12 and 13 , 1865 . funnily , the battle interrupted a standing peace in Texas . Earlier in the class , the opposing sides had acknowledge the futility of continued combat and assumed an informal peace .
Even strange , this late brush may have included outside violence . Though historic records remain inconclusive , shots from the Mexican side were account during the fight , potentially from Mexican forces with a vested interest in Confederate barter or even from member of the Gallic Foreign Legion stationed along the border .
6. CSSShenandoah
This Confederate ship captured or sank 38 Union merchandiser watercraft during its dynamic deployment , which lasted six month after Lee ’s giving up . Because reliable news was severe to come by on the open ocean , the captain and crowd of theShenandoahwere not positive that the Confederacy had collapsed and continue to chase after Union ships across the Pacific . During the summer months , the ship sink or bewitch 21 vessels , include 11 Union whaler in sub - Arctic waters in a bridge of seven hours , thereby situating the last shot of the American Civil War somewhere among the Aleutian Islands .
On August 2 , 1865 , theShenandoahencountered a British bark and learned that the war was over . In reaction , the ship sailed south around Cape Horn and compass north to Liverpool , where it in conclusion made its formal surrender on November 7 , 1865 . However , officer and crewmembers were unable to return to the United States for years to avoid prosecution for piracy .
7. Onoda’s Perseverance
Hiroo Onoda ’s orders were clear : to protect the Philippine island of Lubang from enemy attack and not to surrender under any fortune . He followed these orders diligently , and was still doing so 29 years after World War II ended . Onoda and three other soldiers survived and refused to surrender to an Allied occupation of the island get in 1945 , and they shroud in the lot for the next three decades , engage in guerilla activities with local officials . straight off after the state of war ’s conclusion and again in 1952 , brochure were airdropped over the mountains to let Onoda ’s men know that the war was over , but they concluded that the news was an confederate trick and deny to capitulate .
In 1974 , after Onoda ’s three comrades had either surrendered or been killed and Onoda himself presumed utter , a Japanese college student backpack through the area and discovered Onoda . Still skeptical and loyal to his guild , Onoda decline to surrender until his former commanding officer supply the dictation . Major Yoshimi Taniguchi , who was currently working as a bookseller , flew to the Philippines and formally relieved Onoda of duty .
Though perhaps the most notable Nipponese holdout , Onoda was not the only one or even the last to be found . Shoichi Yokoiwas get a line in Guam in 1972 , andTeruo Nakamurawas divulge in Indonesia nine calendar month after Onoda ’s exit .
8. Battle for Castle Itter
Five days afterHitlercommitted suicide in his Berlin bunker , anti - national socialist German soldiers link American military force to defend an Austrian castle against the seventeenth Waffen - SS Panzergrenadier division . The castle , a satellite prison of the Dachau concentration camp , domiciliate outstanding French prisoners during the Nazi moving in .
In areviewof Stephen Harding ’s novelistic bill of the conflict , The Daily Beast ’s Andrew Roberts intimate that the unusual battle is pure fodder for Hollywood : the event is both the only known example of American forces defending a mediaeval castle , and of substantial American and German forces fighting together during World War II . However , this wrong engagement was not the last of the war ; the Georgian uprising on Texel continued for another 15 day .
A state of war ’s end often usher in a complicated period . undecided tensions from one war will lead to another — as between both World Wars — or mines and other displaced weaponry may cause casualties years after the fact ( as in the Balkans and Sri Lanka ) . In other cases , treaties fail to satisfy the involved parties , and irregular ill will continue , as they have along the border betweenIndia and Pakistan . account is interpenetrate with examples of engagement that continue long after the warfare has ended .
This story was in the beginning published in 2013 . It has been update for 2022 .
