USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Citation: Treaty of Ghent; 12/24/1814; Perfected Treaties, 1778-1945; General Records of the United States Government, Record Group 11; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. This “Treaty of Peace and Amity Between the United States and Great Britain” was signed on December 24, 1814.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The treaty released all prisoners and restored all captured lands and ships between the United States and Britain (Mobile and Spanish West Florida territory west of the Perdido River were not returned to Spain, who allied with Britain and the Red Stick Creeks in the War of 1812, by the United States).

Detailed explanation-4: -The end of the war of 1812 The Madison administration then entered into peace negotiations with the British. The Treaty of Ghent, which formally ended the war, involved no significant change in pre-war borders or boundaries.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Treaty of Ghent was a peace treaty ending the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States. It was signed on Christmas Eve, 1814, in the city of Ghent, which is located in what is now Belgium. The Treaty of Ghent was ratified by the U.S. Congress in February of 1815.