Notes:

Whimsical Warfare came about from a discussion on /tg/ on taking well known events in military history and subjecting them to disneyfication in order to make them as innocuous and cuddly as possible. Due to the more general nature of the content, and the lack of a /his/ entry, I felt they belonged here instead of being in the /tg/ entry.

So, yeah, this battle. There's nothing I can write here that won't make it sound like complete b-------, it's just that stupid. However, to summarise, during the Anglo-Turkish War of 1787-1791, a bunch of Austrian scouts brought some booze off some gypsies, got drunk, fired upon their own troops when someone tried to take it off them which then caused the panicked troops to fire back, causing further chaos that led to the entire army of 100'000 men to attack themselves.

The following battle then claimed the lives of ten thousand men and allowed the Turkish forces to capture the city of Karánsebes with ease; as the defending force had managed to route itself.

For further reading, please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes