would become maine. it would also mean no american military power on the great lakes. we can t agree to this. and so after two months of negotiations going nowhere great britain is going to quietly drop it as well. they re going to abandon their native american allies in october. so than the british say ok, we are not going to create a buffer zone, but now the negotiate treaty means whenever anybody held at the end of the war, they keep. bad for us, because we have not seized any part of canada. good for great britain because they have this whole part of maine, and they have these forts along the niagara river and up here at the michigan territory. we say no, nothing doing. not going to work. they re going to drop back in november. august, september, october november. four months, no negotiations, no compromises. finally, the last big issue is british navigation of the mississippi river and american use of the fisheries off new england and newfoundland. american and british n
just a few months ago back in september, we observe the 200th anniversary of that moment. today, and the rest of this weekend, we are observing the 200th anniversary of the end of the war of 1812 and the treaty of ghent. that is what we will be talking about today. what was the treaty of ghent? what was the war of 1812? as we go through slides, please don t hesitate to call out the question or ask me to back up if i go too fast. they told me i had about two hours. i hope you brought snacks. we are going to talk about the treaty of ghent, or how i learned to stop worrying and love canada. this is a postwar painting of the exchange of the treaty as it was negotiated on christmas eve of 1814. we have the british commissioners on the left, the american commissioners on the right. it is called the piece of christmas eve. but while the treaty is signed on december 24, it does not go into effect, not yet. the british understood that 200 years ago. that is something that 200 years of
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