America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 5, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Pig War and the boundary disputes that gave us Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

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Unfortunately, production on this series has been a nightmare and the full bibliography was lost in a technical error (not realizing my laptop had disconnected from wifi and stopped auto-saving). Here is an abbreviated version:

Coleman - The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History

Shewmaker - Daniel Webster and the Oregon Question Available to Purchase

Polk - Inaugural Address

Polk - First Annual Message to Congress

Vancouver - A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America

Wilkes - Map of the Oregon Territory

Oregon Treaty, 1846

Treaty of Washington, 1871

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 4, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Creole Case, the struggle for emancipation in antebellum America, and how the slaver states wanted to use a war against British Canada to their own advantage.

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Douglass - The Heroic Slave

Home - Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation

Jervey and Huber - The Creole Affair

Jones - The Influence of SLavery on the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations

Momodu - The Creole Case

National Archives - The Amistad Case

Rediker - The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

Sorrell and Berry - This 1841 Rebellion at Sea Freed More Than 100 Enslaved People

US DOS - The Amistad Case, 1839

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 3, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Patriot War, a failed Canadian Revolution where the US somehow managed to fight and lose on both sides.

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Guillet - The lives and times of the patriots; an account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Bonthius - The Patriot War of 1837-1838: Locofocoism with a Gun?

Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Ducharme - Closing the Last Chapter of the Atlantic Revolution

Forcese - Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War

Kilbourn - The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada

Kinchen - The Rise and Fall of the Patriot Hunters

Read - The Rising in Western Upper Canada 1837-8: The Duncombe Revolt and After

Sewell: Mackenzie: A Political Biography

Waxman - The Caroline Affair in the Evolving International Law of Self-Defense