Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent was signed on December 24, 1814. The treaty was approved in February of 1815, after the war was officially over. It was signed in the city of Ghent in Belgium. Unfortunately, the treaty did not address two major causes of the war which were, the impressment, or the act in which men are captured and forced into the naval force against their will, and also the rights of neutral US vessels. Although, in the treaty, it was stated that all conquered territory must be returned, and commissions were planned to settle the boundary of the United States and Canada. Unfortunately, news of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent did not reach in the United States quickly enough. Therefore, Andrew Jackson sent men to fight the British at New Orleans which was not needed because the treaty had been signed.
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