Cresap's War
from The Dave Bowman Show
Before the colonies ever turned their attention toward revolution, before a single musket was fired at Lexington or Concord, two of Britain’s American provinces nearly came to blows with each other. The conflict was not about tea or taxes, but about maps, egos, and one particularly hard-headed frontiersman named Thomas Cresap. His name would come to define a little-known but bloody land dispute that began in the 1730s and simmered until King George II himself had to step in and draw the line. Literally.
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