which war was started by the shooting of a pig

The war that was started by the shooting of a pig is known as the Pig War. It was a border dispute in 1859 between the United States and Great Britain over the San Juan Island on the US-British border. The conflict began when an American farmer named Lyman Cutlar shot a pig owned by a British employee of the Hudson's Bay Company that was rooting in his garden and eating his potatoes. This incident escalated tensions between the two countries but fortunately did not lead to actual combat, making it a "war" with no human casualties, only the pig. The dispute was eventually resolved through diplomacy.