Perhaps the Pig War was one of the most mysterious and strange wars in human history. The story of the war begins in 1846 AD when the Oregon Treaty was signed between Britain and the United States of America, and the goal of the treaty was to rest a long-standing border dispute between the United States of America and British North America. Canada today, especially with regard to the lands between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast.

The Oregon Treaty stipulated that the American / British American boundaries are to be drawn at the 49th parallel, a division that still exists to this day, and although all of this sounds somewhat explicit, the situation is a bit more complicated when it comes down to it. In a group of islands located southwest of Vancouver.

About this area, and the treaty stipulated that the border is across (the middle of the channel separating the continent from Vancouver Island), therefore drawing a line through the middle of the channel will always be difficult due to the critical situation of the islands, and one of the largest and most important islands in this region, is San Island Juan, was of remarkable importance due to its strategic location at the mouth of the canal, and as such, both the United States and the United Kingdom claimed sovereignty over the island and citizens of the two countries began to settle there.

By 1859 AD, the British were enjoying an important presence on the island, supported by the recent arrival of the Hudson Bay Company, which established a salmon treatment plant and a sheep farm on the island. Meanwhile, a group of twenty to thirty American settlers recently arrived on the island and made it citizens On the island.

The inhabitants of the island lived together, but this was not sustainable. On June 15, 1859 AD, there was a pig belonging to Britain by mistake wandering in the land of Lyman Kotlar, an American farmer, when Cattlar noticed the pig eating some of his potatoes, and he had a fit of rage and killed the pig, and the pig was in fact possessed Of a British Hudson Bay Company employee named Charles Griffin, and the Griffin owned quite a few pigs and was well known for allowing them to roam freely around the island, and this was probably not the first time someone had been wandering around Cattlar Land.

When Griffin found out about the pig's death, he went to confront Cutlar, and they talked together and offered Cattler to pay Griffin $ 10 in damages, but he refused, and instead, Griffin reported Kotlar to local British authorities who threatened to arrest him, which angered local American citizens. They then prepared a petition demanding US military protection, and this petition was received by General William S.

The anti-British views of Harney (Oregon Commander) were known at the time, and without thinking he sent a group of 66 men from the United States' 9th Infantry Division to San Juan on July 27, 1859.
On hearing the news, James Douglas, the governor of British Columbia, decided to send three British warships to the area as a show of strength, and during the next month, a pause occurred, as the two sides slowly increased their military presence in the area and with the United States' 9th Infantry Division refusing to budge, they thought they were outnumbering. The number is large.

After the arrival of Admiral Robert Pine, Commander-in-Chief of the British Navy in the Pacific, things changed a lot. Things changed a lot, and James Douglas asked Pines to direct his forces to San Juan Island and involve the forces of the American 9th Infantry Division. Pines refused and said (he will not involve two great countries in a war. Because of a quarrel over a pig), word finally reached both Washington and London about the escalating crisis.

Officials on both sides of the Atlantic were shocked by the emergence of a dispute over pigs, 3 warships, 84 rifles, and more than 2,600 men were sent, and because they were worried about this escalation, and the two sides quickly started negotiations, and ultimately decided that the United States and Britain should preserve the existence of what No more than 100 men were on the island until a formal agreement was reached, after which the British set up a camp in the north of the island, as the Americans were stationed in the south of the island.

Until 1872 AD, an international committee led by Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany decided that the island should be completely under American control, and accordingly the dispute was ended, and today, both British and American camps can still be visited in the San Juan Island National Historic Park. Interestingly, This is the only place in a national park in the United States where a foreign flag is raised over American soil, and the United States says it is a sign of friendship.