What was the pig war fought over?

Answer 1

As the name points out, it was fought over a pig. One guy killed someone else's pig and the owner got angry, the fight escalated into a war. The end result was the San Juan islands were split in half. One half went to Canada, the other went to the U.S.

Answer 2

The Pig War, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a Pig, is also called the Pig Episode, the Pig and Potato War, the San Juan Boundary Dispute or the Northwestern Boundary Dispute. The pig was the only casualty of the war, making the dispute otherwise Bloodless_war

Answer 3

A British pig went into a American farmer's farm and destroy his potato patch. So the farmer shot it.

Answer 4

It involved a conflict between the US Army and the British Royal Marines over the ownership of the San Juan Islands off the coast of Vancouver Island.