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Vancouver's 1798 map, showing some confusion in the vicinity of southeastern Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and Haro Strait. The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, between Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and the Washington Territory (present-day State of Washington).
Pig War (1859), a largely bloodless border confrontation between the United States and the British Colony of Vancouver Island; Pork war of 1880s, European nations embargo of US pork export; Pig War (1906–1908), a trade war between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia; The Pig War (poem), a Latin poem
The Pig War (original Latin title: Pugna Porcorum) is a Latin poem written by John Placentius (Jan Leo Struyven), a Flemish Dominican friar, under the pseudonym Publius Porcius. The text was first printed in Antwerp in 1530. The poem consists of 248 dactylic hexameters, every single word of them beginning with the letter p.
Map of the proposed boundaries between the United States and Canada around the San Juan Islands during the Pig War. Born the son of Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby and Sophia Maria Hornby (daughter of General John Burgoyne), Hornby was educated at Winwick Grammar School and Southwood's School in Plymouth and joined the Royal Navy in March 1837. [1]
Admiral Sir Robert Lambert Baynes KCB (4 September 1796 – 7 September 1869) was a British Royal Navy admiral who as Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station prevented the 1859 Pig War from escalating to a major conflict between the United States and the United Kingdom.
The Pig War (Serbian: Свињски рат, romanized: Svinjski rat, German: Schweinekrieg, Hungarian: Disznóháború), or Customs War (Царински рат/Carinski rat), was a trade war between Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbia in 1906 to 1908 during which the Habsburgs unsuccessfully imposed a customs blockade on Serbian pork.
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George Edward Pickett was born in his grandfather's shop in Richmond, Virginia, on January 16, 1825, and raised on his family's plantation at Turkey Island.He was the first of the eight children of Robert and Mary Pickett, [3] a prominent old Virginia family of English and French Huguenot origins.