Californian Reacts to the PIG WAR (Oversimplified Reaction)

so i got to be honest i literally don't know a single thing about the pig war and i kind of love that i'm going into this blind also let's appreciate the fact that oversimplified is teaching us about just completely new events in history because i'm pretty sure everyone's going to know about this this is going to get memed to death look at us boys we've only gone and bloody done it does anyone else see this russian flag right here cured independence now to expand and conquer the rest of the continent uh thomas it looks like a bunch of different people already live out west what oh no that means we can't expand i hate my life i'm not exactly even sure what century this is going to take place in say they were white people [Applause] we look at this star wars reference all right so clearly this pig whatever it is out there going to be some sort of sith lord the end of the revolutionary war when the united states secured its independence from great britain the two sides met in paris they discussed american territorial gains and the british granted them a generous amount of land out west however benjamin franklin appeared to have an additional fascination oh canada so voluptuous you think we can maybe acquire some of that quit ogling our territory but look at those curves this is worrying about have something to do with 1812 what about your own curves benjamin america suggested that one day the canadian colonies should become a part of the united states in response britain suggested that many in america should shut the hell up if britain wasn't going to get they're probably tired of the two sides had to agree on where to put their border easy enough for the most part follow some existing borders add in a few rivers and lakes maybe even a parallel for good measure yeah there was a question what would happen here hmm let's put a straight line yeah oh it was wow we're on the same level of this perfectly oval-shaped lake and continue in a straight line westward until it met the mississippi river perfect or was it what about it turned out the lake didn't actually look like this but like this and the mississippi wasn't here but here so in the end none of that made even the slightest bit of sense don't blame the founding fathers they were just using the best map available at the time who made it but to the minds of the day the issue had been solved and it was finally time to start getting along oh back to war they go oh here we go a glorious war of 18 yeah 18 12 americans try to invade canada and the british burn down the white house yeah that's a pretty big dub they got there and once again american yeah the whole draw thing it's probably the safest way but i mean it is hard to call it a draw when we had you know our capital building burned down i think we kind of took a spiritual l right there even though necessarily we didn't like lose anything besides the building britain had to enter into peace negotiations by now both sites realize the original border they came up with was a piece of hot garbage and since america had also recently obtained a huge amount of land from napoleon they decided they would yeah examine the border issue love they keep the art style for napoleon and stuff straight lines yeah just keep the straight line everything west of the mississippi just needs to be a straight line that's our philosophy westernmost point of this lake as had been previously agreed down to the 49th parallel and from there the line would go straight as an arrow up until the rocky mountains but beyond the rockies the two sides couldn't quite agree on where it would go next because the territory beyond the rockies was theirs see throughout its early history america as a nation had its eyes heavily fixated on all that juicy land out west ripe for invasion i mean settlementation america wanted to expand orlando was it their right some believed it was a destiny given to them by god himself manifest to multiply manifested baby oh like i just realized the reference okay guys just before we take over everything they literally manifested manifest destiny and that's how we got all that west territory is that why that word made a comeback definitely said this is what we're meant to do right yeah that's what he said and who is he billy well it was one of us there's no way we made this whole thing up to justify ruthless collective imperialist tendencies all right yeah well no of course not let's get out there and make the world a better place just as god intended oregon trail is to give me some organ trail vibes disbelief expansion would later be given its very own name manifest destiny but america wasn't the only one interested in controlling the western territories at the time canada was made up of a number of colonies collectively referred to as british north america this one over here was owned by the hudson's bay company a british charter company dedicated to tournaments i don't even know where this video is going to go as possible as quickly as possible and the indigenous because i don't know anything about the subject as a result the british were also eager to control the land out west and secure that region's valuable resources and in particular the great columbia river was deemed vital to the beaver business yeah i was gonna say there's a lot of beavers what would happen to the uh one of oregon's mascots the line should keep going straight because we're manifestly destined to gain the entire north american continent no we need this river so we can keep scalping beavers look what is the pig war going to be in victoria 3 i just realized it probably will be we just draw the border along the river that way we both have access to it well that would be that seems fair to both parties and there's no way i'm ever gonna agree to it it is ugly right i mean both sides simply agreed that for now they would jointly occupy the northwestern territory they were both free to settle and trade there but rest assured the agreement was only temporary what does russia think russia is currently in alaska at this time i think listen yank we can jointly buy this land but i ain't sharing anything else i don't want to see you using my toothbrush i don't want to catch you wearing my underwear and i don't want to catch you that's a deal breaker my computer selling my dated advertisers well then you my friend should use nord vp oh yeah bickering over boundaries manifesting destiny and a joint occupation of organ and one man living here who felt the territory should be british was james douglas the hudson's bay company's no-nonsense chief factor at fort vancouver ah what a beautiful unspoiled vancouver british empire that was pretty i've got my spy posted morgan wasn't it fan club membership and an unrelenting negative outlook on life that affects everyone around me what are you looking at steven yes truly british do they still have this stuff in those states this these british stuff or did we like tear all that stuff down like douglas was that many americans had already begun streaming up the oregon tree look at that old those old texas borders diarrhea having by the thousands they were pouring into the oregon territory in search of land organization this however crowded out the fur trade and eventually a very bitter douglas and the other man just thinking about oregon trail makes me too hungry for man of operations but the americans keep coming and they don't stop coming hopped in their wagons and they hit the ground running didn't make sense to keep sharing oregon when they outnumbered the brits more than six to one and suddenly the whole joint occupation deal was being called into question oh there's russia newly elected president polk maintained that america had an obvious claim to the entire region even implying a possible war with britain fiery language from u.s senators declared that american rifles would annihilate the hudson's bay company in oregon and america even gave britain notice that it was pulling out of the joint occupation agreement the british were alarmed as the two sides stood on the brink of war but in the end neither truly wanted to fight what year favored maintaining good economic relations well the americans had already gotten themselves into a war okay mexico so after a bit of back and forth okay so 1846 i was just about to look at you wanted a straight line there because i'm trying to think straight line i'm trying to think what the british were doing at this time and so the agreement was made the border would continue directly back in georgia but because the british insisted they keep vancouver island it would then move south through the center of the channel and on to the pacific ocean finally the issue of the northwest border had been solved hold the phone discrepancy detected enhanced frame 200 uh-oh we're going csi yes that's totally possible nope too far [Music] perfect now show me the exact wording of the treaty the line of boundary goes to the middle of the channel through the middle of said channel but there's loads of channels so you tell me dear viewer which channel is the treaty referring to and therefore who kind of surprised the british just allowed the treaty maybe that to happen well that's exactly the problem encountered by the people living in the area the british insisted that the channel intended by the treaty was the rosario strait and therefore the islands were british the americans on the other crazy that we were able to like figure out what we wanted to do with all this land like the you know thousands of square kilometers we eventually came to terms figured it all out and then all of a sudden these random channel islands start messing with stuff again i'm just going to assume that in 1850 the reason the british were okay with just giving up oregon and washington was they were kind of focused on a lot of other things like the imperialization of africa was about to begin they were trying to hold down india they'd just taken over a lot of australia and new zealand who cares about these little territories over here though let's just let's just let them have it i'm gonna assume that's the case at least harrow's straight and therefore the islands were american at times the debate became rather heated even the individuals what i'm saying it got so heated but thousands of miles away the people in power simply had more to worry about than some tiny islands in the middle of nowhere this is why i just need to watch the video i look stuff up and then they just start talking about it all right listen up we got a lot to get through the seventh earl of jizzingham says he encountered a foul beast in the fields of upper fartingdom late last night and put this sketch together i was about to ask if that was a real darren next lord piddling him says he has a new mole on his backside how is that parliamentary business george i've got a lot of moles on my backside in the pacific northwest are in dispute and could lead to a war with america boring fine let's take a look at that mold george it could be cancerous you always gotta be careful the islands were simply held in dispute were they british or were they american i'm sure this conflict won't cause anyone to die and one man who thought the islands were undeniably british was james douglas now the governor so they changed he had already once had american settlers encroach on his territory and force him to move and move that by golly he wasn't going to let it happen again as far as he was concerned those islands were not only british but prime agricultural land and given the chance those globby yanks wouldn't hesitate to start pitching flags with their i can understand why maybe canada was desperate he came up to get those islands if the british settled the islands first then that would surely secure the british for britain and so in 1853 why the us cared so much though charles griffin along with some hawaiian shepherds to go set up a sheep farm on san juan island and set up a sheep farm i mean canada's a lot of tundra a lot of icy land they need all the fertile land they can get but within those flocks of woolly cowards these channel islands are those prized berkshire pigs oh porky you look stunned you're the greatest thing that's ever happened to me would you perhaps like to go to the island bowl together tonight oink once for now roll around in that cow crap if yes yes i'm covered in poo and i'm the luckiest man alive but that's how island for charleston griffin wasn't to be a perfect paradise of pig pageants because unfortunately for him the americans also believed the island was theirs one day in 1854 an american customs collector was switching around the island on the outlook for bands of native tribesmen why they just split the islands down the middle i've got you now you savages over yonder those are cheap sir sheep you say what are they doing here let's go and negotiate with them negotiate with sheep are you crazy why am i getting minecraft call me crazy i get it i'll eat your eyes hello good sir it's imagining request to speak with all the wool for the beds out of my way allow me to parlay with this foul beast [Applause] [Music] hey hey stop threatening my sheep your sheep you mean to tell me that you a british subject have illegally imported these sheep into american territory i'll have you know that you an american are currently trespassing on british territory the americans felt that they were entitled to collect taxes on the british property you know because the island was american and they threw a seizure if dues weren't paid reverse card threatened the americans requiring british citizens to pay taxes i've got an idea of british people you should have threw a bunch of tea in the water caused a little bit of chaos actually we don't really like tea in america what do we like coca-cola maybe maybe maybe throw food in the water throw our hamburgers arrested the americans you know because the island was british and the two sides were in a standoff to give charles griffin the legal power to deal with the american trespassers douglas said hey put on this wig boom you're a magistrate now and in turn griffin went to one of his hawaiian shepherds and said hey let me see that they were hawaiian put on this badge the british then went off to arrest they took the hawaiians all the way out to with four pistols and a giant knife so the brits had to back down eventually raids by northern tribes chased the us officer from the island but the americans weren't done yet officials from nearby whatcom county in washington territory believe the island fell under their jurisdiction and they decided it was time to make the british pay up once they sent one sheriff barnes to go confront charles griffin hey you owe us 80 and 33 is that what i think it said griffin hey you owe us yes it did good 33 cents for all this farm stuff you got here go suck an egg oh i see so that's how it is huh that's how it's going to be is it that's the way in which things are squiggles that be how it will is it will it be how that is huh that be the way in which things be the way they are is that get off my property so the sheriff in other words do be like that though they were now well within their rights to seize and auction off griffin's sheep in order to recoup lost taxes and who would they auction these prized breeding rams off to but themselves then in a pretty chaotic scene they worked to touch boats and when charles griffin came running to rescue his hand swam being americans they pulled out guns on him and he had to back down in all charles griffin 34 breeding rams and he was furious can i just figure that out real quick yes sheep do swim oh okay for some reason i can't tell if their wool would be like helpful or not the british complained to the american government who were shocked to hear what had been going on at their northwest border and both governments told their officials in the area to back off we're not trying to make a major war over some dumb sheep and a stupid island but also the islands are definitely ours under no circumstances for now both governments agreed to set up yet another boundary commission to decide which channel was the correct border but it often devolved into petty bickering the british did make one interesting suggestion though we could draw the border through this middle channel and split the islands between us yeah well that would be a completely fair compromise that protects the interests of both parties and there's no way i'm ever going to agree to it well it looks like they're kind of uh they don't get like the fair deal of it like why not give them this middle island maybe i mean that'd be weird though ms douglas still stationed at fort victoria became even more cautious of american encroachment into his territory uh mr douglas sir it appears an indian has discovered gold in the fraser canyon just north of here shut up keep your voice down boy we can't risk those globby americans hearing about this or our territory here will be infested with them oh no here we go busting out the fraser canyon gold rush attracted a heap of americans to the region some got lucky most did not and of those that didn't were americans just allowed to move up there many simply decided to settle in the area and in particular the juicy green pastures of san juan island were rather appealing believing the island was american territory interesting that it's called san juan island in the late 1850s one of them was a man named lyman cutler a young man in his mid-20s and lazy as spanish he didn't want to have to clear a space in the forest to build his home so he said i'll just build my cabin right in the middle of this british sheep run i'm sure that won't make anyone mad when he planted potato seeds in his garden rather than building a nice protective fence around them he said i'll just fence in three sides and hope all these british farm animals have more compass and respect my property rights how dare griffin's pig was a berkshire well-known dare that's rooting and lyman's fairly pathetic fence made for a bad combination numerous times he had had to chase the pig away from his property and he once angrily marched up to griffin's home saying hey british farm idiot keep your stupid pig out of my bed that is weird that he would just make you three-sided defense out of my pig griffin was furious with his new out of my pig potatoes out of my pig huh griffin was furious allegedly american neighbors they built their homes all over his sheep pastures and besides what right did they have to be here anyway it was british territory lyman on the other hand swore the local government had assured him his land claims were legitimate and so to him the british were out of line still dancing sick freak in love with his pig isn't that just sick yeah what a freak not like our love spuddy ours is all natural yeah just a man in his potato i think i would wrong with that i think i would take a potato pig was just about pretty thick oh no buddy all right you damn destroyed his wife that's the final strong that's dark right there that's dark lyman shot the pig why is this so cinematic he felt bad about murdering griffin's prized boar so he went to him and said he was pricey man oh i kind of just killed your pig it was eating my potatoes again and i don't know man i just i can't i'm so intense killed your pig killed your pig this is gonna be his villain origin story [Music] this is how he becomes the punisher he's just like killing all these americans it's so scary you swine no no wine is the one i killed yeah i was gonna say i'm lyman [Music] imagine like loving a pig and then still using swine as an insult griffin demanded lymon pay a hundred dollars for the loss of the pig that's a lot of money outrageous some at the time obviously lyman refused the time threatening to shoot any more animals that dared enter his property even threatening to shoot griffin himself when griffin complained to james douglas british officials went and confronted the pig killer again they insisted he pay up and if he didn't lymon claimed they threatened to arrest him and take him back to victoria british officials arresting an american on american soil and trying him under british law now that's controversial and it's a controversy that attracted the attention of an american general in charge of the department of oregon one william s harney this guy general harney had a reputation he's the kind of guy who invades mexico without orders wasting valuable resources and creating an embarrassing situation for everyone involved oh that's a great combination of his own men arrested for writing the wrong header on a report he's the kind of guy who finds a dog digging off his yard and then chases it for a mile and a half just to give it a beating he hated superiors hated being told what to do oh man had been court-martialed four times this is so bad i can already see where this is going he's described him as an imbecile all matter and no mind an arrogant humbug and the laughingstock like i said general harney had a reputation he hated the british probably not the greatest guy to be putting in charge of anything but himself he even wanted to become president and so in july 1859 when he happened to visit this is all right before the civil war of the americans living there the shooting of a pig and the british threat to arrest that's why this event isn't talked about general harney went into scheme mode [Music] hey yo captain pickett look at that beautiful phone listen carefully i need you to pick up some flowers and bring them to my place later i've got a plan here i am sir what's the plan pick it you and i are going to start a war i thought he was going to say on a date okay listen up an american man shoots a worthless pig on san juan island and the british threatened to arrest him outrageous but we can use it we get this oh yeah there's definitely a petition american troops for protection that's when you go with your men and occupy the island the british will find american troops on an island they consider theirs so offensive they won't hesitate to blow you to smithereens then it's war we need you to sacrifice your life and we fight back i'll write to washington dc letting them know what's happening but here's the kicker my letter will take six whole weeks to get there before the government even gets a chance to respond telling me i'm an idiot and hoping to cease fire the island will be ours hell we could even invade vancouver island or british columbia it's foolproof wow very impressive sir something that doesn't but yeah i don't know about this well i'll level with you picket historians still contest exactly what it is i'm trying to do here it's possible i'm trying to expand america's territory maybe i'm trying it's a legacy yeah i can become president some of you something like that but since i'm a slave-owning southerner i may be trying to create a diversion to help the south succeed in the upcoming civil war but if there's one thing that almost everyone can agree on it said i'm an idiot but hold on hey they use the no no american flag because pickett they're pretty and i like them they're all allowed to use that flag had no secret plan at all and were not scheming masterminds but simply hot-headed buffoons genuinely outraged at the audacity of the british and trying to protect american citizens but the fact of the matter is that's what i was going to say like now i'm imagining some sort of alt history where we are thrown into a war with british canada and then the civil war breaks out so you have the north fighting two different fronts that's a scenario i can see the csa succeeding in took the very controversial and extremely provocative act of landing american troops on disputed territory he set up his camp in a very exposed position and erected a very provocative sign proclaiming that only american laws applied on the island it was almost like he was asking to be fired upon or again maybe he was just an idiot when a british official sent to the island to get rid of the unruly american settlers now saw that there were american troops he demanded they leave he was obviously told to go suck an egg when douglas this is also he was in giving me vibes that like the americans still kind of i felt had a grudge against the british at least in terms of this video i'm seeing the british depicted more as like they don't really care they're probably like over it and all the wars we faced a couple decades prior but it does make sense the americans would hold on to it since that was like our identity at the time raged to him the american landing constituted an invasion harney sent a report back to the war department in dc justifying his actions with exaggerated claims of british villainy but he knew it would take absurd some british character six weeks for their reply maybe the situation was entirely in the hands of local military and government officials and the ball was in the british court with the temperamental governor douglas it's interesting because all that territory over there was really still kind of new there probably wasn't that many people over there in america really about to go to war over the shooting of a pig and it's like all the way man were to have his way across the continent entirely possible they would james douglas had already had americans force him out it's funny that i could have threatened his position pulled these two into a war now they had invaded his island and he had had it it was time to turn to the royal navy you captain hornby go to the island and prevent any more americans from landing and take this magistrate with you to arrest captain pickett use force if necessary just don't do anything to start a war wait you want me to use force but not start a war oh oh i'm sorry is that too much to ask princess when captain hornby got to the island and saw that the american this is so funny because it's such a small thing that keeps building and building and it's getting bigger and bigger it all just started with like dispute over some random islands and the killing of a random pig force there was even larger than expected his concern this reminded me of the bucket back to douglas who in response ordered even more ships to the island and at this point the naval officers were like hey man let's talk they were concerned douglas's escalation was leading them to war and they convinced him it probably wasn't a terribly good idea to just go up to an american military captain with his armed men and say hey bucko you're under arrest yeah please don't shoot me douglas gave in to prevent any hostilities he canceled all orders and told the navy for now to simply keep an eye on the americans he did send one more ship for good measure captain pickett now seeing the british ships with their guns aimed directly at his exposed camp said see jeff look at that we're about to get blown to bits this is great to plan to another position which as it happened was also very exposed it probably won't surprise you to learn pickett came dead last in his graduating class nearby american and british officials i'm really starting to think that they sent like just the most like worthless generals out there out towards like the territory that maybe a lot of the people in the government didn't really care about and i'm sure they cared about it but i mean i think so much focus was on the east coast that they probably neglected the west a little bit it was just so important because a major war breaking out in their doorstep was the single most exciting thing to ever happen in any of their miserable frontier lives one charles griffin was particularly unhappy first his pig had been shot now his sheep pastures were being trampled by soldiers and tourists alike he complained to governor douglas who was still pretty upset about the whole thing douglas felt british honor itself was at stake so he decided that if american forces were allowed to be on the island well then by golly the british should be there too it would be a joint military occupation upon hearing douglas's new plan to land british troops on the island captain hornby decided to go speak with pickett in person after informing him of the plan pickett replied that if they dared land he would open fire so there they were the british intentions the americans had risen this was it war over a small island i know middle of nowhere that's why i keep thinking and some potatoes over whether the us canada boarded that potato was hot though or like this it was stupid hold on this is stupid the comedy is so good in these videos landing those troops i'm not going to be the one who starts a war the captain decided not to follow douglas's order and good thing he didn't because pretty soon after that the leading british admiral in the entire pacific region showed up rear admiral banks outranked governor douglas when he heard of everything that had been going on he was stunned but yeah when he heard that hornby had refused douglas's plan to land troops baines could have kissed him whether he did or not history doesn't tell but i like to think you did canceled all of douglas's orders and instead pursued a policy of not interfering with the americans until he could contact the british government the americans not knowing the british no longer intended to land had sent reinforcements and began fortifying but even still the british navy did nothing and finally when word made it across the planet informing the two governments of the ongoing crisis yeah everyone was shocked holy crap harney landed troops on disputed territory man i hope the british don't find out about this oh crap the british why are we getting reports of american troops on san juan island i don't know man nothing to do with me but you're the president what breckenridge am i the president yes sir and hey we we got a problem it looks like the southern states are considering succeeding and headed for the biggest crisis in the history of the nation and it's your job to fix it sir sir oh no go away i'm not the curtain again mr president i'm not here you cannon back in the pacific northwest harney was beginning to realize the government may not be terribly impressed with his reckless actions so he began firing off even more aggressive letters that's why they needed lincoln tell them the british were sending back out of the tears on the curtain and that they're big meanies with coal for hearts and that they made me cry like a little girl wait no that makes me sound weak they made me cry like a big girl yeah that's it yeah yeah yeah received his anxiety only grew stronger oh crap hey general scott please make this goal just get that guy out of there sir general winfield scott was the commanding general of the entire u.s army well known for his negotiation skills he was a veteran of the mexican-american war during which time he had had to deal with general harney's idiocy and he watched as harney got away with it all thanks to his friends in high places it's safe to say that scott really did not like general harney by now general scott was racked with gout and he was so big he had to be hoisted onto his ship in a basket nevertheless wow again the long journey and he's the general he's the major gentleman okay everyone get over here will somebody please tell me what the heck is going on i'll tell you general it all started on one fateful day last summer i was gonna make up this story buddy all right you damn dirty pig that's the final straw hey you can't get away from me look at that pig nowhere left to run hey i'm gonna enjoy this diamond if you spare my life i grant you three what is it [Music] so you see general it sounded like uh i'm not even on his progress that's right he shot it liar he's lying to you general i'll tell you what really happened what a pleasant summer's afternoon here on my humble is the pig gonna be super demonic or something in my beloved potatoes i'm so happy say lyman yeah them some nice buds here oh it's not demonic but it'd be a shame if somebody ate them no not again you beast leave my potatoes alone yeah i'm gonna eat them lymon i'll eat them and then i'm gonna eat you stay back i'll shoot go oh self-defense make my day shoot me shoot me i've seen a lot of pigs like that you always gotta be gotta be careful around them [Music] so you're telling me hey wild boar pretty crazy though i will say i mean maybe not this is the strongest naval power in the world over the shooting of a pig yeah yeah now he's starting to get it not only the pig sir the british then threatened to arrest this poor pure american soul thank you general shut up i don't care about you okay i've made up my mind you're an idiot you're an idiot you're an idiot you're an idiot you're an idiot you guys are fine and you too are the most mind-numbingly brain-dead ding-dongs i've ever encountered in all my life and i'll see you in my office okay harney listen i cut it here's how it's going to be or maybe not both sides will maintain a small force on the island for a joint military occupation until our two governments can decide who owns the island now the only way they'd agree to that is if pickett is removed from command so i'm replacing him with captain hunt here now harney seems listen to me fair do not under any circumstances but pick it back on that island okay i mean it harney do not order pick it back understood yes sir good i'll see you blubbers later is he gone i think so good hunch you're fired pick it you're going back on the island all right you psychopath i've been waiting years for this i hate you oh there it is harney had not only ordered pickett back onto the island but his department even notified the british that it did not recognize the joint occupation settlement while everyone else had decided on peace harney appeared to still be threatening war yeah this dude is a little crazy a furious winfield scott soon removed him from command and sent him elsewhere in harney's absence the joint occupation went ahead and the troops actually got along together quite well the british attended fourth of july celebrations at the americans oh that's weird americans visited the british for queen victoria's birthday even pickett became good friends with his british counterpart war it seemed had been avoided thanks largely to the level-headed action that's crazy to think about because this is like 1850 or 1860 so literally 50 years earlier they were at war to see them come together i guess it's a new generation they probably don't remember the fighting and brutality but yeah royal navy in general winfield scott of course the islands were still in dispute and the question of who exactly owned them still had to be answered that answer would have to wait because while san juan was at peace yeah the nation was tearing it so that's why i've never heard this story before broke out in 18 nobody covers it the issue of san juan just wasn't that important it's so overshadowed despite being a southerner remained in the us army but was eventually removed from command at st louis when his loyalty to the union came under suspicion uh yeah famously captain pickett and native virginian went on to become a confederate general pickett's charge at the battle of gettysburg remains one of the most famous moments of the entire war and marked a major turning point u.s relations with britain actually soured during the war the british missing their supply of southern cotton initially looked like they may intervene on the side of the confederacy there was the trent affair when confederate diplomats were discovered and arrested on a british male steamer and then there were the british-built ships sold to the confederacy that wreaked havoc on northern commerce i didn't know they did that furious american politicians called on the british i thought they were pretty neutral and by now a long list of hot issues existed between them and yes on that list oh wow 12 years later still the issue of who owned these gosh dawn islands that issue it was finally agreed would be submitted to international arbitration the empire of germany would decide what the british and americans that is really random but the american all right was reportedly presented with a little more pizzazz a little more zinc and in the end when the germans made their decision they awarded the san juan islands to the united states and look how we repaid them by using shotguns against them in world war one he said that there was no possible way the british argument had been presented correctly but that was that the british conceded and on the 25th of november 1872 the last kind of troops left the island randomly to allow germany to decide to raise their life okay thanks germany had removed the flagpole one last up yours to uncle sam by this time charles griffin had already left the island and the hudson's bay company eventually sold their sheep farm and so there you have it a dangerous situation that almost brought two great powers to war triggered by the shooting of a pig but we lost a potato too don't forget that and an eagerness beautiful potato conflict was avoided and the only casualty of this pig war was well just a pig but how different could things have been what if the british had attempted to arrest yeah that's why i keep thinking what if they had landed troops could the two sides have actually gone to war could america have invaded canada could it perhaps still invade canada well think about it why not we have the manpower we have very true it's our manifest destiny picture a future where american mounties wear red white and blue and hail the stars okay let's not give anyone anyone ideas wave the american flag every fourth of july in the streets of montreal maple syrup the greatest american food bamf the greatest american national park one united nation we have to start loving mooses too glorious president drake no longer shall we tolerate our smug neighbors to the north with their affordable insulin and endless comments complaining that i don't talk about canada enough in my videos that's right canadians he has had a lot of videos and he hasn't talked much about canada sleep with one eye open tonight because biden's coming baby then this time he's coming with adventure [Music] should we be worried at all i mean it does seem pretty easy i'm sorry canada but i really enjoyed learning about that subject like i said i didn't know anything about it one of those things that's definitely like makes me ponder a lot of things i could have been pretty disastrous for america all things said things pretty much really worked out for the us they got the islands they defeated the south and in the absolute opposite direction they could have just like not existed anymore if things went differently or at the very least lost like all of the south and those islands which both are clearly very important and big thanks to the christmas patriots aryan after hours drew's arab sugar daddy what are you doing step droop why am i doing this this is game storm trooper fight the pie mine brothers 99999 majestic university ivan lee i love margaret cruz argentinian cybernetic ghost of christmas bring back poland and for his excellency king corey

Channel: Drew Durnil

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Length: 40min 56sec (2456 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 10 2021