| Show CAROLINE WAR WAS SHORT border trouble between united states and canada threatened for time however to bo be serious ua the caroline Carolf ne war was a border trouble between the united states and nad canada in which a few persons were hilled killed but the trouble did not last long ion in 1836 7 there was a strong republican spirit rite rife in parts ot of lower canada which culminated in december 1837 in an unsuccessful insurrection in toronto the leaders of 0 the insurrection fled to the united states and one of them a newspaper man named mackenzie with 25 or SO 30 men including a few from the american side who had joined him seized an island in the niagara river and set up a provisional government their navy consisted of a steamboat called the caroline and one dark night while she was lying on the Arile american rican side a party of canadians crossed the river and burned the boat killing several men wen on board of her the affair caused great indignation president van buren issued proclamations demanding observance of the neutrality laws the new york militia was called out and placed under command of gen winfield scott president van buren characterized the burning of the caroline in american waters as an outrage of a most aggravated character and concluded by asking congress for such appropriations as the circumstances in which our country Is thus unexpectedly placed require Is the affair dragged along al few years but was finally settled with out further farther bloodshed |
