Ask any student who has taken Michigan History or is a member of a Michigan-themed group on Facebook, and they will likely be able to tell you all about the Toledo War, the conflict between Michigan and Ohio over the strip of land where Toledo is today. The conflict held up Michigan’s admission to the Union and granted the state the Upper Peninsula. There’s a much less known war Michigan fought at statehood and that was with Canada – a war little remembered today called the Patriot War.