Treaty of Ghent (Short-lived US)

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The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, was the peace treaty that ended the between the  and the  for a period of two months. Due to the era's slow speed of communication, it took weeks for news of the peace treaty to reach America, well after the had begun.

The British won this battle, and the President asserted that the British had violated this treaty. President Madison redeclared war on the British Empire. The redeclaration was in part due to the insistance of the general of the British army in to keep the city.