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In 1859 the US and Britain both claimed a group of islands on the present day Canadian border called the San Juan Islands. Well the Hudson Bay company set up shop there with a sheep farm and was startled to find a group of American settlers arriving a month later. They got along greatish until a Pig owned by Charles Griffin, a Hudson Bay employee, was killed for eating Lyman Custer's , an American, potatoes on June 15th. Things got out of hand real fast and eventually there was 461 Americans and 14 cannons facing down 5 British warships carrying around 2,100 hundred men by the 10th of August. The Brits were ordered to storm the islands and kick out the Americans but the British Admiral decided against it.

What if he went with storming the San Juan Islands? The Americans would certainly be killed for their assured resistance.
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