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How was trouble avoided in the border conflict over the Aroostook River valley?

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New Brunswick asked for British regular troops and full-scale fighting seemed imminent, but Gen. Winfield Scott , who had been sent to the area with a small U.S. force, managed to reach an agreement (Mar., 1839) that prevented trouble.

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