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siliyunicorntime dieceased daiyaoowada I told my government class about the Great Emu War and half the class didn't belleve me so we had my government teacher look it up on the projector oh my god Emu War An emu Date Location Result November 2-December 10, 1932 Campion district, Western Australia Emu victory Belligerents Australia emus Commanders and leaders Sir George Pearce Major GPW Meredith Royal Australian Artilery emus Strength 2 machine guns 20,000 emus Casualties and losses none 2,500 dead emus only in australia wait how did the emus win have you ever met an emu

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Artist's Description: "I remember the morning, 8th november 1932. Those birds appeared from nowhere, breaking our line of defence. I saw them breaking into a machine gun's nest. The next thing I remember was me running away as fast as I could, and screams of those, who didn't make it in time. Oh God, I still hear those screams..." -Unknown Australian soldier
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I'm not Australian, but I've looked into this event before.
Basically, Aussie farmers during the Great Depression were having a lot of problems with Emus getting into their crops. They asked for help from the government, and they ended up having a bunch of WWI ex-soldiers come down and hunt the emus with machine guns and stuff.
Since the soldiers were being led by Major Meredith, everyone called it a "war". And since they weren't actually very successful at getting rid of the Emu occupation, the war was considered an Emu victory.

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