toledo

Today marks the anniversary of the unofficial end of the Toledo War, a mostly bloodless conflict between Michigan Territory and the state of Ohio over a disputed territory known as the Toledo Strip. Congress proposed a compromise where Michigan would get statehood and the entirety of the Upper...

In case you don't know, the Toledo War was a boundary dispute between Michigan and Ohio upon Michigan's impending statehood. Due to some weird surveying, a strip of land including Toledo was claimed by both Ohio and Michigan. A team of self-proclaimed diplomats was sent (I forgot which state...