Mapa que mostra les línies frontereres en disputa (en vermell la britànica i en blau la dels Estats Units)
La Guerra d'Arostook (de vegades anomenada Pork and Beans War o Guerra de la cansalada i les mongetes[1]) va ser una confrontació que va tenir lloc els anys 1838–1839 entre els Estats Units i el Regne Unit sobre la seva frontera internacional entre la colònia britànica de Nova Brunswick i l'Estat de Maine. Es va arribar a un compromís de pau, el Tractat Webster-Ashburton de 1842, el qual fixà la frontera permanentment. El terme "guerra" es considera retòric, malgrat que es van mobilitzar les milícies locals, mai no es va produir cap combat important. L'esdeveniment es descriu millor com un incident internacional.
Referències
↑Le Duc, Thomas (1947). The Maine Frontier and the Northeastern Boundary Controversy. The American Historical Review Vol. 53, No. 1 (Oct., 1947), pp. 30-41
Bibliografia
Carroll, Francis M. "Drawing the Line" Beaver 2003 83(4): 19-25
Carroll, Francis M. "The Passionate Canadians: The Historical Debate about the Eastern Canadian-American Boundary," New England Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 83–101 in JSTOR
Jones. Howard. "Anglophobia and the Aroostook War," New England Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Dec., 1975), pp. 519–539 in JSTOR
Jones. Howard. To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty: A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1843 (1977). 251 pp.
Jones, Wilbur Devereux. "The Influence of Slavery on the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations," Journal of Southern History, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Feb., 1956), pp. 48–58 in JSTOR
LeDuc, Thomas. "The Webster-Ashburton Treaty and the Minnesota Iron Ranges," Journal of American History, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Dec., 1964), pp. 476–481 in JSTOR, shows the value of the iron range was not known when the treaty was drawn
Merk, Frederick. "The Oregon Question in the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Dec., 1956), pp. 379–404 in JSTOR
Remini, Robert. Daniel Webster (1997) 535-64
HISTORICAL SKETCH Roster of Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men CALLED INTO SERVICE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE NORTHEASTERN FRONTIER OF MAINE FROM FEBRUARY TO MAY 1839 (Google Books). Augusta, ME: Kennebec Journal Print, 1904, p. 4–5 [Consulta: 15 octubre 2007].
Enllaços externs
Gould, John «Hiram Smith, hero of the war that wasn't». Christian Science Monitor, 13-07-2001 [Consulta: 11 agost 2011].
The Upper St. John River Valley: The Boundary Dispute, with maps and historic texts