chriscross1966 t1_jddrw5o wrote on March 23, 2023 at 5:49 PM Reply to TIL of the Pig War, a border dispute between the US and the UK, around Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and Washington State. The only casualty was a pig, owned by an Irish farmer, which was shot by an American farmer for eating his potatoes. Both countries deployed military troops. by drak0bsidian And it's not even close to the daftest war us Brits have got into. See Anglo-Zanzibar War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War Or The War of Jenkins' Ear https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear There's a reason about a quarter of the world takes a day off, as locally appropriate to celebrate the anniversary of when they got rid of us Permalink 1
chriscross1966 t1_jddrw5o wrote
Reply to TIL of the Pig War, a border dispute between the US and the UK, around Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and Washington State. The only casualty was a pig, owned by an Irish farmer, which was shot by an American farmer for eating his potatoes. Both countries deployed military troops. by drak0bsidian
And it's not even close to the daftest war us Brits have got into. See Anglo-Zanzibar War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War
Or The War of Jenkins' Ear https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear
There's a reason about a quarter of the world takes a day off, as locally appropriate to celebrate the anniversary of when they got rid of us