Are you familiar with the history of The Debatable Land? It was a little patch of ground on the Scottish/English border distinguished by the fact that for several centuries the two realms agreed that it belonged to neither. Only when it had been overrun by bandits did they agree to split it between them.
One of my earliest memories is of President Johnson and the President of Mexico pushing buttons to set off explosives to reroute the Rio Grande River to return an island to Mexican sovereignty in 1964:
Are you familiar with the history of The Debatable Land? It was a little patch of ground on the Scottish/English border distinguished by the fact that for several centuries the two realms agreed that it belonged to neither. Only when it had been overrun by bandits did they agree to split it between them.
Amazing! Will have a read about it now
Graham Robb's book is the one.
One of my earliest memories is of President Johnson and the President of Mexico pushing buttons to set off explosives to reroute the Rio Grande River to return an island to Mexican sovereignty in 1964:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamizal_dispute