The Pig War

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 1859, the United States and Great Britain nearly went to war over an issue that seems more likely to spark a feud between Hatfields and McCoys: An American settler shot a Canadian pig that was rooting around his garden. Read the show notes here.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuffy Mist in History Class from HouseofWorks.com.
0:42.7	Hello and welcome to the podcasters.
0:44.7	I'm Tracy B. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.
0:46.7	And so you, it's funny to me.
0:48.7	I wrote this little outline with an introduction,
0:51.7	that begins if you grew up in the Pacific Northwest,
0:53.7	or maybe in Vancouver,
0:55.7	or especially in the islands between them.
0:58.7	You may have already heard about the story we're going to talk about today,
1:01.7	which is the pig war.
1:03.7	If you have tuned in thinking this is about the Bay of Pigs invasion,
1:07.7	I'm sorry, we're talking about something else.
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