The Aroostook War (sometimes called the Pork and Beans War[1]) was a military and civilian-involved confrontation in 1838–1839 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine. Two Canadian militiamen were injured by black bears before top-level diplomats from the U.S. and Britain met in Washington and forged a peaceful compromise. The Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled the border along the line it still holds today.