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The San Juan Island Crisis, which occurred in the summer of 1859 between the United States and the British Empire and entered history as the "Pig War," was a sovereignty dispute that brought the two nations to the brink of military conflict. Although triggered by the killing of a pig belonging to a British company by an American citizen, the underlying cause was a long-standing territorial disagreement stemming from geographical ambiguities in the 1846 Oregon Treaty. The crisis, which ended with