The War America Forgot: How Michigan and Ohio Almost Killed Each Other Over Toledo
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The War America Forgot: How Michigan and Ohio Almost Killed Each Other Over Toledo
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In 1835, Michigan and Ohio mobilized militias, pointed cannons at each other, and nearly started a civil war over which state would get to claim... Toledo. This bizarre border dispute featured midnight raids, drunken militias firing into the darkness, a governor with a $1,000 bounty on his head, and exactly one wounded casualty (someone got stabbed with a penknife). When President Andrew Jackson tried to intervene, Michigan told him to mind his own business. The conflict got so heated that Michigan refused to become a state for two years out of pure spite, creating a semi-independent "republic" in protest. Discover the forgotten territorial showdown that almost turned the Midwest into a battlefield, how it was finally resolved with the weirdest compromise in American history, and why Michiganders still haven't forgiven Ohio almost 200 years later.