The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium, ended the War of 1812 between the United States and United Kingdom. Fighting continued for several weeks after signing the treaty, including the Battle of New Orleans, because news of the treaty took time to reach North America. However, by terms of the treaty, the war was not officially over until ratifications were exchanged and the treaty proclaimed. The United States Senate unanimously advised ratification on February 16, 1815. President James Madison ratified the treaty on February 17 at which time the ratifications were exchanged. The treaty was proclaimed on February 18. Signatories for the UK included Henry Goulburn. The Peace Commission representing the United States included Albert Gallatin, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and John Holmes (U.S. politician). In signing the treaty, the Americans ended up abandoning both of their primary goals in starting the war: to expand their territory by seizing control of the British colonies to the north in what would later become Canada, and to stop the forcible boarding of sovereign U.S. ships on the high seas by the warships of the British Royal Navy searching for deserters and enforcing the British blockade against Napolon. However, as the Napoleonic Wars ended, the second issue began to fade on its own. == See also == * List of treaties * Timeline of United States diplomatic history * Wikisource:Treaty of Ghent in Wikisource ==External link== *[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/britian/ghent.htm Text of treaty from the Avalon Project] War of 1812 United States treaties Canadian history
==Ghent== There are a couple of cities called Ghent (disambiguation). Is this the Belgian one ? User:Lvr 08:39, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC) :For an international treaty, it is undoubtedly the one in Belgium rather than any of the U.S. places. User:Bkonrad 11:09, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Treaty== There are certainly a large number of examples of encyclopedic articles that include original text, and even complete texts, and I'm sure readers would find the actual text of the treaty very useful. I understand though if this is your article. --User:AtticusFinch 02:10, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC) :No, it is not my article. It is Wikipedia convention that articles do not contain the entire original text of source documents. That is precisely what Wikisource it for. If you want to add the text there and put a link to it here, that would be just fine. User:Bkonrad 02:41, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) ::I took the text of the Treaty and added it to WikiSource as WikiSource:Treaty of Ghent. User:Lvr 10:00, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium, ended the War of 1812 between the United States and United Kingdom. Fighting continued for several weeks after signing the treaty, including the Battle of New Orleans, because news of the treaty took time to reach North America. However, by terms of the treaty, the war was not officially over until ratifications were exchanged and the treaty proclaimed. The United States Senate unanimously advised ratification on February 16, 1815. President James Madison ratified the treaty on February 17 at which time the ratifications were exchanged. The treaty was proclaimed on February 18. Signatories for the UK included Henry Goulburn. The Peace Commission representing the United States included Albert Gallatin, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and John Holmes (U.S. politician). In signing the treaty, the Americans ended up abandoning both of their primary goals in starting the war: to expand their territory by seizing control of the British colonies to the north in what would later become Canada, and to stop the forcible boarding of sovereign U.S. ships on the high seas by the warships of the British Royal Navy searching for deserters and enforcing the British blockade against Napolon. However, as the Napoleonic Wars ended, the second issue began to fade on its own. == See also == * List of treaties * Timeline of United States diplomatic history * Wikisource:Treaty of Ghent in Wikisource ==External link== *[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/britian/ghent.htm Text of treaty from the Avalon Project] War of 1812 United States treaties Canadian history
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==Ghent== There are a couple of cities called Ghent (disambiguation). Is this the Belgian one ? User:Lvr 08:39, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC) :For an international treaty, it is undoubtedly the one in Belgium rather than any of the U.S. places. User:Bkonrad 11:09, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Treaty== There are certainly a large number of examples of encyclopedic articles that include original text, and even complete texts, and I'm sure readers would find the actual text of the treaty very useful. I understand though if this is your article. --User:AtticusFinch 02:10, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC) :No, it is not my article. It is Wikipedia convention that articles do not contain the entire original text of source documents. That is precisely what Wikisource it for. If you want to add the text there and put a link to it here, that would be just fine. User:Bkonrad 02:41, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) ::I took the text of the Treaty and added it to WikiSource as WikiSource:Treaty of Ghent. User:Lvr 10:00, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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