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15th June 1859: The Pig War begins between the USA and Britain
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-06-14 21:05:25
Description: The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island. The archipelago of which San Juan Island is part lies between Washington State on the United States mainland and Vancouver, in what was then British North America. The 1846 Oregon Treaty had established a boundary along the 49th parallel along ‘the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver’s Island’. The problem was that San Juan Island itself lies in the middle of the channel, leading both countries to claim sovereignty over it. By 1859 the British Hudson's Bay Company had established ...
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