Download or read book The Pig War written by Emma Bland Smith and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a true story of how the great nations of America and England almost went to war in 1859 over a pig--but learned to share instead. In 1859, the British and Americans coexist on the small island of San Juan, located off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. They are on fairly good terms--until one fateful morning when an innocent hog owned by a British man has the misfortune to eat some potatoes on an American farmer's land. In a moment of rash anger, Lyman Cutlar shoots Charles Griffin's pig, inadvertently almost bringing the two nations to war. Tensions flare, armies gather, cannons are rolled out . . . all because of a pig! Emma Bland Smith's humorous text and Alison Jay's folksy illustrations combine in this whimsical nonfiction picture book that models the principles of peaceful conflict resolution.
Download or read book The Pig War written by E C Coleman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a plot to grace any comic opera, the 1859-72 'Pig War' broke out when an American living on a quietly disputed small island in the Gulf of Georgia shot a British pig he found rooting up his garden produce. The authorities on nearby Vancouver Island and the military leadership of the adjacent Washington Territory both felt they had good reasons to escalate a trivial incident into a full-blown war between the United States and Great Britain. Soon, American soldiers found themselves looking down the barrels of the Royal Navy cannon. Whilst both the British and the Americans continued to threaten and bluster, Royal Marines and US soldiers settled down on the island to a round of social events, including sports days, combined dinners and even summer balls. Despite the outbreak of the American Civil War, and British intervention on the Confederate side, the hot-heads were restrained and, eventually, it was decided that the problem should become one of the earliest examples of international arbitration. The German Kaiser was brought in and - from the British point of view - came to the wrong decision. Set against the framework of US attempts to gain control of the whole North American continent, The Pig War is a highly readable account of a little-known episode in Anglo-American history.
Download or read book The Pig War written by John Placentius and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pig War written by Mike Vouri and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Mike Vouri has selected nearly 200 historical images to illustrate the history of the Pig War on San Juan Island in Washington state. Each image has a descriptive caption.
Download or read book War Pig written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is War Pig There is evidence that pigs were utilized as military animals in ancient wars. These pigs are known as war pigs. The majority of the time, they were utilized in conflict as a countermeasure against war elephants. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: War pig Chapter 2: Claudius Aelianus Chapter 3: Erymanthian boar Chapter 4: Callisthenes Chapter 5: War elephant Chapter 6: Maurya Empire Chapter 7: Military animal Chapter 8: Lysimachia (Thrace) Chapter 9: Cynane Chapter 10: Howdah (II) Answering the public top questions about war pig. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of War Pig.
Download or read book The Return of the War Pigs written by Jeff Jeske and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beware the Boar who is slow to anger." So declares the Teaching. And now the War Pigs, a race of half-human half-pigs, are ready to march. After decades of internment in the Mojave, they have a mission: to arm themselves and blow up Los Angeles. Thus begin the adventures of Overlord, Wart Hog, Xerxes, Sergeant Snout, Socko, McPork, Tusker, Brunhilde and the Swine Maidens, and the entire War Pig army, as well as the bus-full of Las-Vegas-bound tourists that they capture on their way to I-95. Their first destination: Wild Bill Snopes' Mojave Military Academy, the U.S. government's main storage depot for retired weapons. Next, the desert town of Nitro, where the law requires all citizens to carry guns, followed by an assault on the Doom Valley Airport. And then on to Los Angeles itself, the San Cochino nuclear facility, and a climactic pitched battle with Valley shoppers and the U.S. Army at the Sherman Oaks Galleria. At the action's core is the unrequited love of Wart Hog for Astrid, one of the human captives. When she escapes, his pursuit leads him through the streets of Hollywood to a personal Armageddon on the nighttime Fourth-of-July beach at Santa Monica.
Download or read book The Pig War written by Betty Baker and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1969 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-read account of how the death of a pig nearly caused a war between the Americans and the British.
Download or read book Cows Pigs Wars and Witches written by Marvin Harris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches? Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from identifiable and intelligble sources.
Download or read book The Pig War written by Rosemary Neering and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 15, 1859, an American settler on San Juan Island shot a pig belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company. This seemingly insignificant act was the spark that almost set aflame the strangest of many confrontations between Britain and the United States on the northwest coast of North America. On one side of the border dispute over the strategically located San Juan Islands was Governor James Douglas, determined to protect the interests of the Hudson's Bay Company and prove the military superiority of Britain. On the other side was General William Selby Harney, spoiling for a fight and believing in America's manifest destiny to rule the continent. In this lively account of the conflict that became known as the Pig War, Rosemary Neering traces the events that led to the standoff in the San Juans and brings to life the memorable characters who played leading roles in the drama. The book is an excellent travel companion to anyone visiting the San Juans and the original American and British camps that are open to the public.
Download or read book Pig Boats written by Theodore Roscoe and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1983-06-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pig War Islands written by David Richardson and published by Eastsound, Wash. : Orcas Publishing Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fascist Pigs written by Tiago Saraiva and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion. In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived on national produce. Food independence was an early goal of fascism; indeed, as Tiago Saraiva writes in Fascist Pigs, fascists were obsessed with projects to feed the national body from the national soil. Saraiva shows how such technoscientific organisms as specially bred wheat and pigs became important elements in the institutionalization and expansion of fascist regimes. The pigs, the potatoes, and the wheat embodied fascism. In Nazi Germany, only plants and animals conforming to the new national standards would be allowed to reproduce. Pigs that didn't efficiently convert German-grown potatoes into pork and lard were eliminated. Saraiva describes national campaigns that intertwined the work of geneticists with new state bureaucracies; discusses fascist empires, considering forced labor on coffee, rubber, and cotton in Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Eastern Europe; and explores fascist genocides, following Karakul sheep from a laboratory in Germany to Eastern Europe, Libya, Ethiopia, and Angola. Saraiva's highly original account—the first systematic study of the relation between science and fascism—argues that the “back to the land” aspect of fascism should be understood as a modernist experiment involving geneticists and their organisms, mass propaganda, overgrown bureaucracy, and violent colonialism.
Download or read book The Pig Book written by Citizens Against Government Waste and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Download or read book The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday written by and published by All American Books. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bufalo's collection of stories, essays, and politically incorrect commentary by and about the Marines fighting terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan shows how troops feel about being in harm's way.
Download or read book A Day No Pigs Would Die written by Robert Newton Peck and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.
Download or read book Adventures and Recollections of Bill O th Hoylus End written by Bill O'th Hoylus and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Adventures and Recollections of Bill O'th Hoylus End by Bill O'th Hoylus
Download or read book Adventures and Recollections written by Bill o'th' Hoylus End and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adventures and Recollections" offers a collection of captivating narratives penned by Bill o'th' Hoylus End. Through vivid storytelling and personal anecdotes, the book offers readers a glimpse into the author's adventurous experiences and memorable recollections. Bill o'th' Hoylus End's engaging style immerses readers in a diverse array of situations, from thrilling escapades to poignant reflections. This collection serves as both entertainment and inspiration, inviting readers to vicariously experience the highs and lows of the author's life journey.
