On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:43:16 -0700 (PDT), Chuck Gould wrote:

Then considered America's "longest war", an armed standoff between US
and British troops on San Juan Island was part of a larger border
dispute. The simplified, popular version of the tale recounts that the
war began when a US settler shot a Hudson Bay Company pig, but very
few people actually know how the war ended. Find out how the
Confederate Navy played an important role in the crazy political drama
that finally ended the war and established a permanent international
border.

www.pacnwboat.com


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War

"Among the results of the treaty was the decision to resolve the San Juan dispute by
international arbitration, with Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany chosen to act as arbitrator.
Wilhelm referred the issue to a three-man arbitration commission which met in Geneva for
nearly a year.[9] On October 21, 1872, the commission decided in favor of the United
States.[2][5][7] The arbitrator chose the American-preferred marine boundary via Haro
Strait, to the west of the islands, over the British preference for Rosario Strait which
lay to their east."