This conflict began with a victorious engagement by the vastly outnumbered Baron von Nauendorf, and one of its commanders is said to have wagged his finger at a Croatian marksman, causing him to flee.
This conflict began with a victorious engagement by the vastly outnumbered Baron von Nauendorf, and one of its commanders is said to have wagged his finger at a Croatian marksman, causing him to flee. One party in this war was shocked to discover that, Innvierten assumed to be a symbolic territorial grant, was actually filled with a hundred thousand people. Triggered by the heirless death of Maximilian Joseph, the last of the House of Wittelsbach, this conflict was ended by the Treaty of Teschen after Catherine the Great of Russia threatened to intervene. Pitting Frederick the Great against Joseph II, it mainly resulted in tens of thousands of horrifying deaths from hunger-related diseases. For 10 points, name this war fought over a duchy that includes Munich, alternatively named after the tuber crop desperately sought by its starving participants.
This conflict began with a victorious engagement by the vastly outnumbered Baron von Nauendorf, and one of its commanders is said to have wagged his finger at a Croatian marksman, causing him to flee.
War of the Bavarian Succession [or Potato War]