Bloody Bucket

"e;The Bloody Bucket - The war where 2,000 men died for a wooden pail"e; tells the story of the War of the Bucket (War of the Oaken Bucket) in 1325. Tensions were high between the Italian city-states of Modena and Bologna. But the spark wasn't land or religion; it was a raid where Modenese soldiers stole a bucket from a well in Bologna. Historian Julian Smith chronicles the Battle of Zappolino, ...