Hubby and I ran across this tidbit playing Trivix trivia. Natrually I had to go searching for more info.

So, it was called Aroostook War and there was no violence involved. Eventually settled by negotiation that involved Daniel Webster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War

Here's the fun part:

It is also called the "Pork and Beans War" because of the rations. In searching around I found this hillarious fictional accounting of a conversation between a couple of the Maine soldiers about that name. The rest of it is good too.

" Billy half-heartedly swatted at the swarm of black flies circling his head. “You’re a potato farmer just like me, Stewie. Don’t you think you’re lettin’ this war nonsense …”
The corporal stopped short. “Are you callin’ this war nonsense, then?”
I pointed to the fresh pile in which he was currently postured. “I’m callin’ it the War of Pork and Beans, Stewie, just like you do when you ain’t otherwise actin’ the American Napoleon. Why, if they gave medals for sittin’ around on our duffs and eatin’ pork and beans morning, noon and night, we’d both be generals by now. Heck, the only casualties of this war are the boys laid out by the farts ‘round the campfire every night.”
Stewie extracted his boot from the mess and used a stick to scrape off most of the offense. “Exactly, Billy boy. You have a keen military mind when you apply yourself, and when the time be right, you’ll have a place on me own staff.”

Billy shrugged and started walking again. He didn’t want to give the six prisoners a chance to suddenly mount a rebellion and overwhelm poor Coombs and Landers. He threw his voice over his shoulder. “Every Spring a few of them Canuck loggers cut down some trees we say belong to us, or our boys fell a few of theirs, and lickety-split there’s armed posses on both sides of the Aroostook eating pork and beans and rattlin’ sabers to beat the band. But in fifteen years of this nonsense, ain’t one drop of blood been spilled. As wars go, Stewie, you got to admit this one’s just a bunch of farts in the wind.”


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