Toledo War: Battle Between Michigan And Ohio
The most bizarre war in American history was the Toledo War, between Ohio and Michigan, which had no mortal casualties because the militias could not find each other. It involved a poorly drawn boundary line, a 19-year-old “boy” Governor, and armies that could not fight because they got lost in the swamps. The genesis of this war was in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. This ordinance set the southern boundary of Michigan territory at the line drawn from the southern ...
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