
Lyman Cutlar
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Lyman Cutlar was an American settler on San Juan Island whose frustration with a pig belonging to the Hudson’s Bay Company led him to shoot the animal in 1859, igniting a tense military standoff between Britain and the United States known as the Pig War.
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Lyman Cutlar discovered a pig repeatedly damaging his garden and shot the pig, which escalated the conflict.
The pig that almost started a war: How a pig shot in 1859 turned a San Juan Island farm dispute into a 12-year Britain-America standoff | World NewsThe Times of India·
India· 2026-07-28







