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  2. Treaty of Ghent - Wikipedia

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    The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812. Oxford University Press. pp. . ISBN 978-0-19-539178-7. Burt, Alfred Leroy (1940). The United States, Great Britain and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812. The Relations of Canada and the United States.

  3. History of the foreign relations of the United Kingdom

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    William focused most of his attention on foreign policy and foreign wars, spending a great deal of time in the Netherlands (where he continued to hold the dominant political office). His closest foreign-policy advisers were Dutch, most notably William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland; they shared little information with their English counterparts ...

  4. 1812 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    16 August – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army. 19 August – War of 1812: USS Constitution defeats the British frigate Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia. 5 October–10 November – A general election sees victory for the Tory Party under Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of ...

  5. Origins of the War of 1812 - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford historian Paul Langford looked at the decisions by the British government in 1812: The British ambassador in Washington [Erskine] brought affairs almost to an accommodation, and was ultimately disappointed not by American intransigence but by one of the outstanding diplomatic blunders made by a Foreign Secretary.

  6. Charles Webster (historian) - Wikipedia

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    After studying at Cambridge, Webster became professor of international relations at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where he wrote his two major books on the foreign policy of Lord Castlereagh, the first (published in 1925) covering the period 1815–1822, the second (published in 1931) that from 1812 to 1815. In 1932 Webster moved to the ...

  7. International relations (1814–1919) - Wikipedia

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    British foreign policy was set by George Canning (1822–1827), who avoided close cooperation with other powers. Britain, with its unchallenged Royal Navy and increasing financial wealth and industrial strength, built its foreign policy on the principle that no state should be allowed to dominate the Continent.

  8. Timeline of British diplomatic history - Wikipedia

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    Bartlett, C. J. British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (1989) Bourne, Kenneth. The foreign policy of Victorian England, 1830–1902 (Oxford UP, 1970.) pp 195–504 are "Selected documents" Bright, J. Franck. A History of England. Period 4: Growth of Democracy: Victoria 1837–1880 (1893) online 608pp; highly detailed diplomatic narrative

  9. United States declaration of war on the United Kingdom

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    The US government in 1812 was run by President James Madison, who represented the Democratic-Republican Party. [6] President Madison was a key driving force in the declaration of war. [7] As president, he created a declaration of war speech, which he presented to Congress, arguing that war was a necessary measure. [7]