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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by bilmore
I've often thought that.

The one time we ever came together we were about to kick Ohio's ass.

http://wiwi.essortment.com/toledowar_rzxq.htm

In 1833 when Michigan applied for statehood, the dispute over the Toledo strip came to the surface again. To try to resolve this conflict, Michigan’s territorial government tried to negotiate with Ohio Governor Robert Lucas in 1835. Lucas rejected any compromise by setting up a county government in the disputed area of the Toledo Strip. The young hotheaded territorial governor of Michigan, Stephens T. Mason, who was appointed as governor at the age of only 19 by President Andrew Jackson, angrily responded by sending the Michigan militia south to claim the Toledo Strip.


For awhile it looked as if there would be a major battle between the Ohio and Michigan militias in April, 1835. Fortunately bloodshed was avoided because the two armies got lost for a week in the swamps near Perrysburg, Ohio and were unable to find each other. In fact, the only blood shed in this war was when the Michigan militia arrested the family of Major Benjamin Franklin Stickney of the Ohio militia. Major Stickney was subjected to the humiliation of being tied to his horse for a trip to a Michigan jail. Enraged, Major Stickney’s son, named Two (not to be confused with his older brother named One) lunged at a Michigan sheriff and stabbed him in the thigh, making Sheriff Joseph Wood the only casualty of the Toledo War.