The arrests of Rufus McIntire and of Ebenezer Greeley "while performing his duty" were precipitating actions in this conflict.
The arrests of Rufus McIntire and of Ebenezer Greeley "while performing his duty" were precipitating actions in this conflict. Tensions ran high as Fairfield mobilized militia and Sir John Harvey threatened to build fortifications on the Fish and Madawaska Rivers. Harvey and Winfield Scott arranged a truce about occupation of the upper St. John River valley and the namesake region as a prelude to negotiations that gave part of Minnesota's Mesabi Range to the United States. FTP name this bloodless conflict on the Maine-New Brunswick border whose final boundaries were settled by the Webster- Ashburton Treaty.
The arrests of Rufus McIntire and of Ebenezer Greeley "while performing his duty" were precipitating actions in this conflict.
{Aroostook} War