Has a major war ever occured and a map before the war looked exactly the same after?
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It's a Latin phrase that describes exactly what you're after - that territories reverted to what they were before the war. It's actually very common; a modern example is the Iran-Iraq war which was brutal and lasted 8 years.
Usually this is a result of a treaty, and where one side holding more territory but also wants peace, and as an enticement, offers the other side a restoration of territory.
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Without going into the reasons for the animosity, there are some examples of this in the conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors:
Several other smaller conflicts are listed on Wikipedia that didn't lead to any formal border changes.
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The Peninsular War (1807–14) was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war started when French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807, and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain, its ally until then.
It was a grand conflict which involved hundreds of thousands of troops and the whole population of Spain in a generalized guerrilla warfare.
After the war no borders between France and Spain, between Spain and Portugal or between Spain and Britain (Gibraltar) were changed.
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War of 1812? US failed to invade Canada, Canada/Britain failed to invade US.
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