Neither. Both were a lot of avoidable and unnecessary bloodshed.
If I have to pick a favorite it would be the Anglo-Zanzibar war. That one was over and done within less than an hour.
Or the US invasion of Grenada in 1983, which overthrew a totalitarian Marxist dictatorship extremely quickly, right?
Anyway, do you know just how extensive birth and baptismal records were in 19th century Russia? Random question, but just curious.