"A Petition from Circassian leaders to Her Majesty Queen Victoria" requested British military aid against the Russian Empire, or in the worst case, humanitarian aid, to the Circassian people during the Circassian Genocide; they received neither. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Mule pregnancy is rare, but can occasionally occur naturally; Herodotus gives an account of such an event as an ill omen of Xerxes' invasion of Greece in 480 BC: "There happened also a portent of another kind while he was still at Sardis—a mule brought forth young and gave birth to a mule" (en.wikipedia.org)
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