The British expedition to Abyssinia in 1867/1868 was unique even among the many strange conflicts that made up Queen Victoria’s little wars.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.