USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Treaty of Peace and Amity between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America is signed by British and American representatives at Ghent, Belgium, ending the War of 1812.

Detailed explanation-2: -The British army, fearful of not being supplied by the British navy, retreated into Canada. The War of 1812 came to an end largely because the British public had grown tired of the sacrifice and expense of their twenty-year war against France.

Detailed explanation-3: -War of 1812, (June 18, 1812–February 17, 1815), conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent.

Detailed explanation-4: -The two leading causes of the war were the British Orders-in-Council, which limited American trade with Europe, and impressment, the Royal Navy’s practice of taking seamen from American merchant vessels to fill out the crews of its own chronically undermanned warships.

Detailed explanation-5: -On February 16, 1815, the day President James Madison sent the Treaty of Ghent to the Senate, senators approved it unanimously. With ratification of this treaty, the War of 1812 came to an end.