On Jun 5, 12:12*pm, "Califbill" wrote:
"Oscar" *wrote in message

b.com...

On 6/3/2012 11:27 PM, North Star wrote:

On Jun 2, 12:43 am, Chuck *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

Here's some local activity from that same time period.
http://www.tfoenander.com/tallahassee.htm

Nice story.
The note at the end of the story says "Also, it should be added,
newspaper accounts are usually rather unreliable, and should be
approached with caution." How true.

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Halifax would be a viable home to anti American people. *Lots of Halifax was
settled after the revolutionary war by British loyalists from the USA.
They could not abide being the losers and still live on this side of the
border.

Not just Halifax. So many came that they decided to split the
original Nova Scotia into two provinces... us and New Brunswick.
$%^%$#$ yanks... always trying to take over and change perfectly good
situations.