A Pig in Washington State Nearly Caused a Major War (www.nps.gov)

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The Pig War occurred in 1859 after an American living on the contested San Juan Islands shot a pig rooting through his garden. The pig belonged to a British resident who reported the American, Lyman Cutlar, to the island's British authorities.

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