AROOSTOOK WAR

Feb.–May, 1839, border conflict between the United States and Canada. In 1838, Maine and New Brunswick both claimed territory left undetermined on the U.S.-Canadian border, including the valley of the Aroostook River. Maine farmers were interested in the valley's farmlands, and when New Brunswick sent Canadian lumbermen to do logging there, Maine authorities raised a force to eject them. New Brunswick asked for British regular troops and full-scale fighting seemed imminent, but Gen. Winfield Scott, who had been sent to the area with a small U.S. force, managed to reach an agreement (Mar., 1839) that prevented trouble. The boundary was later settled by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842).

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Texas and the Mexican War: A Chronicle of the Winning of the Southwest
Book by Nathaniel W. Stephenson; Yale Unviersity Press, 1921
Subjects: Mexican War, 1846-1848, Texas--History--To 1846
...ASSISTANT EDITORS TEXAS AND THE MEXICAN WAR A CHRONICLE OF THE WINNING OF THE...INDEX " 263 TEXAS AND THE MEXICAN WAR CHAPTER I THE EMPRESARIOS...1827 teemed with reports of the "Fredonian War" -- the war of two hundred men against a...
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In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War
Book by Alice Rains Trulock; University of North Carolina Press, 1992
Subjects: Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence--1828-1914, Generals--United States--Biography, United States--Army--Biography, United States--Army--Maine Infantry Regiment, 20th (1862-1865), United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
...militia in the war with the British in 1812, and the latter a lieutenant colonel of the militia in the bloodless Aroostook War. He also knew something of the latest Chamberlain in the succession, so it was with some hope of acceptance that...
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America as a Military Power: From the American Revolution to the Civil War
Book by Jeremy Black; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Public Opinion--Great Britain, United States--Foreign Public Opinion, British, United States--History, Military--To 1900, United States--Military Relations
...When Reason Fails: Portraits of Armies at War: America, Britain, Israel and the Future...Men Lost Faith in Reason: Reflections on War and Society in the Twentieth Century H...From the American Revolution to the Civil War JEREMY BLACK Studies in Military History...
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The Road to Richmond: The Civil War Memoirs of Major Abner R. Small of the Sixteenth Maine Volunteers : Together with the Diary That He Kept When He Was a Prisoner of War
Book by Abner R. Small; Fordham University Press, 2000
Subjects: Libby Prison, Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives, Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental Histories, Prisoners Of War--Virginia--Richmond--Diaries, Small, Abner Ralph--1836-1910, Small, Abner Ralph--1836-1910--Diaries, Soldiers--Maine--Biography, United States--Army--Maine Infantry Regiment, 16th (1862-1865), United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental Histories
...VOLUNTEERS THE ROAD TO RICHMOND * The Civil War Memoirs of Major Abner R. Small of the...which he kept when he was a Prisoner of War WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EARL J. HESS...publisher. ISSN io8g-8719 The Norths Civil War, No. 13 3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication...
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A Civil War Treasury: Being a Miscellany of Arms and Artillery, Facts and Figures, Legends and Lore, Muses and Minstrels, Personalities and People
Book by Albert A. Nofi; Da Capo Press, 1995
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Miscellanea
...mismanagement, disloyal subordinates and Seminole tenacity combined to cause his only failure. He helped resolve the "Aroostook War" a potentially dangerous border dispute which had already involved the militias of Maine and New Brunswick with Canada...
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Which Poor Man's Fight? Immigrants and the Federal Conscription of 1863
Journal article by Tyler Anbinder; Civil War History, Vol. 52, 2006
Subjects: Draft registration--Analysis, Draft registration--History, Draft--Analysis, Draft--History, Immigrants--Laws, regulations and rules, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...38, subdistricts 32-51 (townships in <br/ modern-day Aroostook and Piscataquis counties); "Descriptive Book of <br/ Drafted...br/ Men," 1st Wisconsin Draft District, Entry 6172, vol. 3; War of the <br/ Rebellion, ser. 3, 5:733-35 (for nationwide figures...
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Lucid Stars the American Foreign Policy Tradition
Journal article by Walter Russell Mead; World Policy Journal, Vol. 11, 1994
Subjects: World Politics
...boundary between Maine and New Brunswick was a major issue in the presidential election of 1840 and led to the " Aroostook War ," in which both the United States and Britain rushed troops to the remote area under dispute. At the same time...
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Planned Serendipity: American Travelers and the Transatlantic Voyage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Journal article by Mark Rennella, Whitney Walton; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Travelers--History, Travelers--Research, Voyages and travels--Research
...difficult realities of post-Civil War America. Many were also indulging...his novel, The Lady of the Aroostook (1879). In this novel, a young...begin a romance on board the Aroostook. Toward the end of the story...attractions in The Lady of Aroostook. The main character, the young...
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Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and the Counterrevolution in the Federal Securities Laws
Journal article by A.C. Pritchard; Duke Law Journal, Vol. 52, 2003
Subjects: Powell, Lewis F., Jr.--Influence, Securities law--Cases, United States. Supreme Court--History
...the effect of the holding was limited. Powell summarized the controlling issue in Bangor Punta Operations, Inc. v. Bangor Aroostook Railroad Co. (196) this way: (CA1 seems to be throwing the law books away!) CA1, over-ruling DC, held that a 99...
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Tied to the Past-Bound to the Future: Ceremonial Encapsulation in a Maine Woods Land Use Policy
Journal article by Stephanie A. Welcomer, Mark E. Haggerty; Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: City planning and redevelopment law--Interpretation and construction, Land use--Laws, regulations and rules, Land use--Maine
...North Woods, 2001. Robbins, James L. "No War with Paper Companies." Bangor Daily News...percent of Penobscot and .5 percent of Aroostook County (Power 2001, 10). (3.) Several...negative impact on northern Maine. Aroostook, Piscataquis and Penobscot Counties...
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Bedeviling Mystery of the Vanished Conestoga
Magazine article by David Grover; Sea Classics, Vol. 42, April 2009
...submarines of the R-type which had gone to Hawaii after the war in large numbers. The most notable event of the search was the...This force consisted of the fleet oiler Kanawha, the minelayer Aroostook which was serving as a seaplane tender, two destroyers, three...
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North of Ordinary
Magazine article by John Rolfe Gardiner; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Spring 2007
...others, he was troubled by the doctrinal war spreading over the campus. Two of the...describe a boy from the potato fields of Aroostook County, the one who had almost derailed...but there was a story going forward. The Aroostook farm boys name was Franklin. Shed known...


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Aroostook War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AROOSTOOK WAR Feb. May, 1839, border conflict between the United States and Canada...left undetermined on the U.S.-Canadian border, including the valley of the Aroostook River. Maine farmers were interested in the valleys farmlands, and when...
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Aroostook
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada. The Aroostook War , caused by boundary disputes between Maine and New Brunswick, took place in the Aroostook valley. The river gives its name to a county in the...
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Northeast Boundary Dispute , which had caused serious conflicts, such as the Aroostook War . Over 7,000 sq mi (18,100 sq km) of the disputed area, including the Aroostook valley, were given to the United States, and several waterways, including...
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Scott, Winfield
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...went to Maine during the so-called Aroostook War . In 1841, Scott was appointed supreme...of the U.S. army. In the Mexican War , Scott approved the northern campaign...Dispute . The outbreak of the Civil War brought onerous burdens to the general...
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Northeast Boundary Dispute
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...boundary (1831), but this decision was not accepted by the United States. In 1839 the dispute led to the so-called Aroostook War , a conflict between inhabitants of New Brunswick and Maine, which produced strained relations between the United States...
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