Californian Reacts to the PIG WAR (Oversimplified Reaction) 

On the German Wikipage the pig is mentioned as an offically fallen combatant 😂

The British and American Camps are a national park that you can still visit today. They’re really cool

37:30 The reason the German Empire was chosen was because they were a neutral country and did not favor britian or the us so they did not have any bias

Ah the Pig War, I talked a bit about it in a Spaghetti Road video!

As someone from Washington who learned about this in middle school I love watching people who had no idea we almost went to war over a pig learn my states strangest fact. I mean it's not important to pnw history like the hostility that resulted in the division of the Oregon territory into Washington and Oregon but still. I'd like to inform everyone that fort Vancouver is a historical site in the PNW

I love how Oversimplified draws America with Florida between its legs, it has a very interesting shape.

20:07 “imagine loving a pig and still using swine as an insult” People who love dogs: *We have forever been pulling the pro gamer moves.*

As someone who has been to the San Juan island: there is an interesting town there called Friday harbor that has the ferry that takes you to it and I recommend checking it out

I love that because the war wasn't very bloody and not overly complex, he can go wild with the funny part. Kind of hard to do with wars with huge fatalities.

The Columbia River divide border might seem fair, but I’d be a Canadian if it happened

Oversimplified is the cult classic of historical RU-vid

Whenever you see countries fighting over seemingly insignificant land, it's usually for decent enough reasons that outside observers might not understand such as geopolitical, advantage in case of war, land that helps repel attacks from outside invaders, putting distance between their borders and their main population/economic centers, natural resources, minerals (like gold), the land has historical significance, ethnic groups belonging to each country live on the land, etc. Both countries wanted San Juan Island (the western one) for strategic/geopolitical reasons. Control of all the islands ensured control of the area between the Strait of Georgia to the north and Strait of Juan de Fuca to the south. This meant the owner of the islands could block others from entering at will. This would be beneficial in case of war or as leverage in any future negotiations between to countries (could threaten to block access). I think the reason why Britain was willing to settle for just having San Juan Island while America wanted all the islands is because Britain already had an advantage due to having the most powerful navy. The US needed all the islands to have any hope of blocking the British in the event of war (like a naval version of the Battle of Thermopylae). The British likely could easily force their way through with just the western island.

"It's kinda hard to call it a draw when our Capitol building was burned down." It's okay, the Americans also burned down the Parliament buildings in Canada.

"I have a lot of moles on my backside" - Drew 2021

Man, Drew's looking more giga-mega-chadder every video he uploads

When is the Drew and Oversimplified Collab coming?

39:09 looks like drew is saluting 😂

12:18 Charles Griffin: I'm covered in poo and i'm the luckiest man alive! Drew: *That's hot*

Another reason why Winfield Scott was the best man for the job: this wasn't his first time settling tensions along the US-Canada border. He was sent there twice under the Van Buren administration alone, and was highly successful both times.

Can we talk about how drew looks like an absolute chad today

Day 4 of telling drew that his daily uploads are appreciated

I actually looked it up and the total cost in today's dollars for $100 in a year that this took place in 1859 was $3,300 that should give you a scale on how outrageous that actually was.

No.. as being around with sheeps in the Netherlands.. the wool is not helpfull, and maybe sheep can swim a bit, but they definitely drown. Cows totally swim, but might be having trouble getting out of water.

17:32 "Interesting they call it San Juan Island. Spanish references." The intermixing of Spanish and English naming for landmarks up and down the coast come from competing Spanish and British expeditions in (1791 and 1792 respectively) in the area. The Spaniards were the first Europeans to discover/chart the San Juan Islands (thus names such as San Juan, Lopez, Guemes, Haro, Rosario, Fidalgo, etc.), while Britain's "Vancouver Expedition" named other maritime areas (Puget, Whidbey, Cook, Burrard, etc.) and mountains (Baker, Rainier, St. Helens).

I love how the reference at 7:21 completely went over his head

17:47 That's not how you plant potatoes. Have you ever wondered why it's called PLANTING potatoes and not sowing? Because you don't use seed to grow potatoes.

Random fun fact: The “crazy” customs collector was actually named Isaac Neff Ebey. Born on January 22nd, 1818. He was the first permanent settler of Whidbey Island.

3:41 he just silently watches the video, taking in all that information and his conclusion is “Burger land”

Straight lines? Yeah straight lines. Sums up American borders

How my Civil War History teacher described it with the selling of ships. British naval people would dock a ship in the Caribbean and just leave it there, the confederate forces would leave a large sum of money at a certain location. The Brits would then go to that location, "find" the money and take it. While the Confederates would just "happen to come across" an empty British ship, and take it without complaint and leave.

Even these easy to make videos that some people call lazy are appreciated, nice to see your reaction of the new oversimplified video

Wait drew with a 40 minute video…THERE IS A GOD!!!!!!

If Americans dumped tea into the ocean to protest British taxes then Brits should dump whiskey in a river as a retort. I think that'll make 'em mad

18:21 of course Charles Griffin said that ALLEGEDLY

2:40 Drew kinda forgetting that the white house was still under construction and held no political/strategical importance at the time. Also kind of forgetting that Toronto was burnt to the ground and Britain lost all of its forts in the area+New Orleans

As someone who grew up in Seattle, I wish we learned more about this in our history class

At 39:08 Drew looks like he is the one saluting to the flag

Well the USA had extremely awful generals leading up to Civil War, the best generals were from the south. The US military was kinda awful until post WW1.

This is so refreshing to see someone pay attention to the video after watching Tommy react

Can’t wait for Drew to cover The Punic War and see himself on the TV at the end of part 2!

Like how the Chinese had their “great leap forward” America has its “manifest destiny”

I like how Canadians annoyed Oversimplified so much he threatened them with invasion, Drake and Biden.

6:00 They actually tried to claim Oregon but when things started to heat up they just decided to give up and let us and the British fight it out. 6:55 Fort Vancouver is literally right across the river from Oregon and yes it's still there.

38:06 Letting Germany decide is not THAT random... Other than France or Russia, Germany never had any colonies in North America, which made them neutral on this subject. Germany was a great power, which gave them the authority to make a decision. We tend to see Germany as a warmonger, but they were often keen on finding a diplomatic solution. Take the Berlin Conference of 1884 as an example. All major colonial powers came together in Berlin to negotiate how they would divide Africa among them.

The most American non war war ever.

The story is quite funny as well as informative. We need more sessions like this

The Oversimplified Pig War video will be shown in history class as the official cause of the Canadian-American War of 2023.

It’s kind of cool that the whole video is about some islands I can see from my house.

Fort Vancouver was close to Oregon, because it was on the site of what is now Vancouver, WA, (across the Columbia from Portland) and not Vancouver BC. This kind of answers the common question why there are 2 Vancouvers.

Fun Fact: *No one died in the Pig War, except a Pig*

they already have Canada in the US. it's called Michigan's Upper peninsula

The end in the pig war is the best

Fun fact Canada has a burned earth policy if it was ever invaded by the U.S

drew durnil with the constant uploads daily at 12 pm

Little did he know that 8 months later 0:00 would be in an oversimplified video

You are so sweet to be there with us I really do love your company

Thank you for accepting our request to react to this!

Oversimplified actually watched this video because he included it in his Punic war video

One of my friends from Oregon had to play the Oregon trail game for history class 😂😂😂

2:34 As a Bosnian, it's completely fine to say that you drew even if your capital building is burnt down, maybe even won if we are taking everything into a conservation

37:05 Yeah both Britain and France wanted to get involved in the American civil war for multiple reasons, such as getting cotton, but the situation became awkward as getting directly involved would have been very unpopular with the lower class. Then there's France who also had been eyeing places in America like Mexico for colonization and a United America would be a threat to their colonization efforts

It's funny how Canada and the USA went from hating each other to being each others greatest ally

I love Oversimplified!! And you Drew I love country balls as well

39:09 drew is confirmed saluting manifest destiny of canada lmao

pretty sure when I was in grade school we took a field trip to fort Vancouver (lived in Oregon), of course being the kid I didn't pay attention but still super cool!

39:09 The salute fits perfectly on Drew WTF

Actually during the War of 1812, we razed the British Canadian capital, I think at the time Toronto? (correct me if I’m mistaken), so yeah they got us and we got them too

I love it when Drew doens't understand a single thing happening, he's just like "oh im supposed to react" and reacts.

The fact that I knew what the Pig War was before the release of Oversimplified, and I'm not even a US citizen makes me question my life.

Gold rushes were kinda a thing that ignored international boundaries- because most governments realize that short of shooting a ton of people there wasn’t much they could do to stop it. Plus the local area would make a killing selling supplies and tools to the miners. The main thing that made it tolerable was the miners weren’t allowed to settle down there afterwards unless they changed citizenship.

Talking of officers sent way out west. In the 1850's one was a certain Captain Grant. Not quite as remote as that though. I think called California or something. Traveling there actually meant going via ship, then through panama (no canal) and by ship again. Dealing with deseases all the way. It was a hell of a trip. The Chernow biography describes it in some detail. Which also shows how incredibly remote this area was, even for the US, not to mention for Britain.

6:51 yes we do still have fort Vancouver. Unfortunately we don't have much when it comes to the sights in the pig war

Canadians watching the end: W H A T H E F U C K

you need to react to more videos drew, love your reactions!

I loved the spiel at the end …WERE COMING BABY

Just a tip Drew. You can pause the video, a bit more often and then talk beacauze u can miss a important little thing by talking while the video is running. Btw Love your vids man

I don't even know what the pig war even is before watching the video. I literally thought it's gonna be about the bay of pigs invasion.

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14:39 the calculator omg im in love

The first fish I every caught was on San Juan island. One of my best memories is all it took was some random pig to die for that to happen so be it

Oversimplified could unite with Pewdiepie to help each other in the conquering of Canada and Norway, together they could even get Antarctica.

"Manifest destiny" is an awfully nice way of saying "Lebensraum".

6:38 My grandpa grew up in Vancouver, Washington, it's actually super close to Portland (he went to school in Portland and it wasn't even that far)

the Swedish wiki page says that the potato was a fallen combatant on the American side and the pig a fallen combatant on the British side

This has to the most legendary and funny ending oversimplified ending.

I love the McDonald's cameos.

Me when i hear my dad calling me and I didn't finish my homework: 17:04

7:21 You should have heard the All Star Reference

I imagine oversimplified said the 1812 war was a draw so he didn’t have a civil war in the comments

Ngl, this was sick. Crazy to think the US and UK went to war over a freaking pig.

I mainly imagine oversimplified said a draw because then there was less of a chance a war would start in his comment section

On the Swedish wiki of the Pig War it list the potato that was eaten and the pig as official casualties🤣

Christmas has definitely came early

The Swedish wiki counted the potato as a casualty.

OUR SMILES😂😂😂 16:58

That ending is the best oversimplified ending ever change my mind

Based and red pilled, Drew is now officially a funny/meme history reaction channel

I love how he said the potato was hot 3 times.. was this unironic lol?

It's in Victoria 2's essential mod HPM, Oregon treaty can escalate into a war.

i love how this video is slightly longer than the oversimplified version