"T. Keating" wrote in message
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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."
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Probably a great decision. The San Juan islands and the Canadian Gulf
Island are totally different geology. The San Juan's are actually mountain
tops where the Gulf Islands are more high spots off Vancouver Island.