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# The Pig War
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/the-pig-war-cnb1ou/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:58:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:08:11.000Z
- Description: Why Britain and the U.S. nearly went to war over the border because of a dead pig.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 6, Episode 5, #ZZZ_Episode_73aff17c-5a86-49fe-99a3-fe22ec3bcd50, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

The killing of a British pig by an American settler triggered an international confrontation that almost set the U.S. and Britain to war in the 1850s. Did one soldier, who later became a Confederate general George Pickett, have an ulterior motive in the conflict?