Marc Fennell
speaker
1,712 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's about ownership.
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And pretty soon it escalates to the point that Cutler's story makes its way to the commander of the US Army Department of Oregon.
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The British caught wind of the Americans asking for backup, and the governor of British Columbia, James Douglas, decided to send three British warships to the island as a show of force.
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Enter the American captain George Pickett, who I am reliably informed was, quote, swashbuckling.
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He arrives on San Juan Island before the British get there, and he sets up on
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the British arrive and they're greeted by Pickett's army.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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So so the the Americans have sent more than sixty infantrymen to to kind of parked on the beach.
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The British or w you know, what is now Canada, they have sent like f warships, like solid warships, to this island, and then they get there and they realize, oh no, this is much bigger than we expected.
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And so he stays.
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The British steam back to their their own territory, which is just sort of southwest of San Juan Island, and they tell the governor, Hey uh, the Americans are not backing down.
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And so ensues a back and forth of finger pointing and threats, befitting of grown men.
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Both sides believe that the other shouldn't be on the island and should back down.
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Until finally the US Commander George Pickett asked for reinforcements.
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Amongst the sea of hotheads in charge here, there is at least one person remaining cool, and that would be a British captain by the name of Jeffrey Hornby.
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This desire to take action against the Americans, it it doesn't seem to affect him.
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It it just sort of slides off him.
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Eventually, word gets back to Washington DC and London about this whole debacle, and both Great Britain and America are frankly horrified at the news.
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They are both, understandably, shocked that a dispute over a pig has grown into a standoff that now involves as many as three warships, more than 80 guns, and over 2,000 men.
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So Winfield Scott was known as the Great Pacifier.
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