In the 1270s in what is today Benelux region of Western Europe, disagreements between the Prince-Bishopric of Liege and the County of Namur led to all out war - according to some chronicles, over a single cow.
On November 11, 2004 some thirteen thousand coalition troops were in Anbar province, Iraq, fighting the deadliest battle of the War in Iraq. Armistice Day, 2004, was war at its most horrible.