Toledo War

[Heraclius49]

That happened in Missouri. Union troops strolled in and it incited a whole wave of violence of pro-Union and pro-Confederate groups.

In a book I read a guy talks about how the colonies did not like each other and they often fought.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I meant the English civil war.

 

[Heraclius49]

Oh, sorry. Not sure if that really happened that but it makes sense. I heard that there was fighting in 1750s-1770s.

Sorry about the Civil War thing. The American Civil war is what I am studying in History right now so it is what I automatically think of.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Oh, sorry. Not sure if that really happened that but it makes sense. I heard that there was fighting in 1750s-1770s.

There was the two Regulators Movements.

 

[Glassfan]

Most Ohio kids learn about this in elementary school. Up north, however, the primitive savages have no formal language but may have recorded it in cave wall paintings.

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Most Ohio kids learn about this in elementary school. Up north, however, the primitive savages have no formal language but may have recorded it in cave wall paintings.

Excuse me, but you Southern Yahoos wouldn't know the English language if it spat at you in the face (neither would the people currently inhabiting our spoils of war, but they're Finnish anyhow). We wrote an epic poem about the war long before your folk had ever heard of the term "formal education." Now, it was lost in a fire the next year, but snippets are well known to all of us. They are, however, state secrets, which you will never learn.

 

[Glassfan]

We wrote an epic poem about the war long before your folk had ever heard of the term "formal education."

Indeed, it begins;

"There was a girl from Nantucket..."

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Indeed, it begins;

"There was a girl from Nantucket..."

That was the satyr play.

 

[Ice_Tyrant]

Ah. I got this friend in Wisconsin, and I'd used to tell him that the Upper Peninsula totally belonged to his state, and we'd joke about it. Then I came across this war when I was reading like... I think it was the history thread archives on the Total War forum maybe. It was amazing. I told him about it immediately. It was amazing for us to discover why his state didn't get to have that peninsula. I read about it on a crakced article recently, When I saw it on the cracked article, my mind was shouting "YES!". (It was an article about silly, minor american civil wars)

 

[Ashurdan]

I actually just watched a show a few days ago about how some states get their borders and the Toledo War was mentioned.

This is how I learned about it.

 

[sydhe]

Yeah I learned about it on the history channel about how the states got their shapes

In the same vein, I learned about it in a book on how the states got their shapes. I wouldn't be surprised if the show and book are related.

 

[Stolen Rutters]

Yes, we were taught this in school when I was young. I'm from Michigan.

 

[Glassfan]

Yes, we were taught this in school when I was young. I'm from Michigan.

How did you escape?

 

[Stolen Rutters]

You think I escaped? I'm on work release.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I had heard of this years ago; I did read the Cracked article, I just liked it because it mentioned the Utah War.

 

[sydhe]

I had heard of this years ago; I did read the Cracked article, I just liked it because it mentioned the Utah War.

Now that's one I hadn't heard of.

Did the dispute over Vermont ever come to blows? New York and New Hampshire both claimed it, and Vermont actually functioned as an independent republic until the matter was resolved by making it a state in its own right.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Well, I naturally grew up hearing all about the Utah War (and the Missouri conflict as well).

 

[GamezRule]

The Utah war had more to do with the Mormons, then any border dispute.

And of course I have heard of the Toledo war. It is actually why Michigan is called the Wolverine State. Weak Ohio yahoo's couldn't handle our tenacity, and said we were like wolverines. (Well my version at least.)

 

[Plotinus]

Try to keep it vaguely on-topic and spam-free, please...

 

[GamezRule]

Aww, the OT was deleted... (Read my sig.)

Anyway, the war was a Michigan victory because of all the raw materials later found in the UP.

EDIT: I just found out I may be related to the Michigan governor during the war!