021: The Pig War (Canadian Almost War 5)

On June 8, 2025 By Trevor CulleyIn America: Secret Wars, Podcast EpisodesLeave a comment

George Vancouver’s Map of the San Juan Islands, 1798

Charles Wilkes’ Map of the Oregon Country, 1845

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 5, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Pig War and the boundary disputes that gave us Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
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Unfortunately, production on this series has been a nightmare and the full bibliography was lost in a technical error (not realizing my laptop had disconnected from wifi and stopped auto-saving). Here is an abbreviated version:

Coleman – The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History
Shewmaker – Daniel Webster and the Oregon Question Available to Purchase
Polk – Inaugural Address
Polk – First Annual Message to Congress
Vancouver – A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America
Wilkes – Map of the Oregon Territory
Oregon Treaty, 1846
Treaty of Washington, 1871

20: The Creole Case (Canadian Almost War 4)

On April 27, 2025 By Trevor CulleyIn America: Secret Wars, Podcast EpisodesLeave a comment

Joseph Cinquez was the leader of a revolt among African slaves aboard the Spanish ship "Amistad" en route to Cuba in June 1839. The slaves seized control of the ship but were soon recaptured and charged with murder and piracy. This portrait was done while Cinquez (or "Cinque") awaited trial in New Haven, Connecticut. John Quincy Adams represented the Africans before the Supreme Court, and thanks to his eloquence, they were set free and allowed to return to Africa. Sheffield's portrait is sympathetic and informal. The text quotes Cinquez's sober and moving speech to his comrades on board ship after the mutiny. He said, "Brothers, we have done that which we purposed, our hands are now clean for we have Striven to regain the precious heritage we received from our fathers. . . . I am resolved it is better to die than to be a white man's slave . . ." Commissioned by the publisher of the New York "Sun," the print was described and advertised for sale in the account of the capture of the "Amistad," published in that newspaper's August 31, 1839 issue. (The "Sun" account, evidently erroneous in this detail, names the artist as "James" Sheffield.) The Library's impression of the lithograph was deposited for copyright the same day. - from Wikimedia Commons — Print portrait of Sengbeh Pieh (a.k.a. Joseph Cinquez) in The Sun, August 31, 1839. Possibly the same portrait that Madison Washington reportedly saw during his time in Philadelphia.

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 4, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Creole Case, the struggle for emancipation in antebellum America, and how the slaver states wanted to use a war against British Canada to their own advantage.
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Douglass – The Heroic Slave

Home – Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation

Jervey and Huber – The Creole Affair

Jones – The Influence of SLavery on the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations

Momodu – The Creole Case

National Archives – The Amistad Case

Rediker – The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

Sorrell and Berry – This 1841 Rebellion at Sea Freed More Than 100 Enslaved People

US DOS – The Amistad Case, 1839

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

014: Shinmiyangyo the ExtraForgotten Korean War Part 2

On August 11, 2024 By Trevor CulleyIn America: Secret Wars, Podcast EpisodesLeave a comment

The Sujagi of Eo Jae-yeon, captured and taken aboard the USS Colorado in 1871

Trevor is joined by Cody Reynolds of the Accidentally on Purpose network (https://linktr.ee/aopnetwork), the Imperfect Men Podcast (@imperifectmenpod), and We Effed Up (@WeEffedUp) to discuss how Americans desperately tried to force the Korean Kingdom of Joseon to trade in the 1800s. Tomb raiding, stupid battles, and sword fights ensue.
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Duvernay – Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea

Long – Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of U.S. Naval Officers…

Chung – General’s Flag Returns Home From US

Eckert, et al. – Korea Old and New: A History

GlobalSecurity – SS General Sherman Incident

Hamilton – Korea, (224-225)

Howe – The Forgotten “Weekend War” A Comprehensive Account of the 1871 Korean Expedition

Hwang – American campaigns for flag’s return

IRFA – Stanislas Féron

Neff – The tiger hunters

Oppert – A Forbidden Land: Voyages to the Corea

Shields – US’ 1871 invasion of Ganghwa Island

Tyson – Marine Amphibious Landing in Korea, 1871