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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. 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]

  4. 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 ...

  5. War of 1812 - Wikipedia

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    The main focus of British foreign policy was the Congress of Vienna, at which British diplomats had clashed with Russian and Prussian diplomats over the terms of the peace with France and there were fears that Britain might have to go to war with Russia and Prussia. Export trade was all but paralyzed and France was no longer an enemy of Britain ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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

  8. Origins of the War of 1812 - Wikipedia

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    According to Historian Andrew Lambert, the British had one main goal as a response to the invasion of the Canada, that was the prosecution of war against the United states and to defend British North America: "The British had no interest in fighting this war, and once it began, they had one clear goal: keep the United States from taking any part of Canada". [12]

  9. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia

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    There was little friction with other colonial powers until the 1890s. British foreign policy avoided entangling alliances. [26] Britain from the 1820s to the 1860s experienced a turbulent and exciting "age of reform". The century started with 15 years of war against France, ending in Wellington's triumph against Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo.