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SuspiciouslyElven t1_jdcgybw wrote on March 23, 2023 at 12:31 PM

Reply to comment by PrezMoocow in TIL of the Pig War, a border dispute between the US and the UK, around Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and Washington State. The only casualty was a pig, owned by an Irish farmer, which was shot by an American farmer for eating his potatoes. Both countries deployed military troops. by drak0bsidian

To be fair, a third of the continent looks like this. Not many natural boundaries to fight over, y'know?

Accomplished_Job_225 t1_jddirq0 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 4:52 PM

The drainage basin heights of land or one of the east west rivers like the Missouri, Assiniboine, Souris, Qu'apple Rivers might have worked.