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The crisis came on June 15, 1859, when Lyman Cutlar, an American, shot and killed a company pig rooting in his garden. When British authorities threatened to arrest Cutlar and evict all his countrymen from the island as trespassers, a delegation sought military protection from Brig. Gen. William S. Harney, the anti-British commander of the Department of Oregon. Harney responded by ordering Company D, 9th U.S. Infantry under Capt. George E. Pickett (of later Civil War fame) to San Juan. Pickett's 64-man unit landed on July 27 and encamped near the HBC wharf on Griffin Bay, just north of Belle Vue Sheep Farm. https://www.nps.gov/sajh/learn/historyculture/the-pig-war.htm
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The name reminds me that in previous centuries the names of war were much more interesting like the War of Jenkins Ear, the war with Barba ray Pirates, the wars of the Austrian Succession and yes to top it off the Pig War SGT John " Mac " McConnell.
Arnold Ziffel comes readily to mind as a pig star.
However the war sparked by the killing of the unnamed "company" pig in 1859 in the San Juan Islands [part of the British Canadian Territories] occurred within 2 years of our own Civil War to the east.
Arnold Ziffel comes readily to mind as a pig star.
However the war sparked by the killing of the unnamed "company" pig in 1859 in the San Juan Islands [part of the British Canadian Territories] occurred within 2 years of our own Civil War to the east.
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
LOL! Thanks For that LTC Stephen F. I ususally don't get to see the remarks until the next morning. Arnold Ziffel , Now that's funny !
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