The Three Hundred and Thirty-Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly lasted from 1651 to 1986 without a single shot being fired.
Why it is true
The conflict was declared during the English Civil War but never formally ended, until a historian noticed the oversight and both sides signed a symbolic peace treaty.
Source: Military History
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