Excerpt from History of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great Britain, Vol. 2: Declared by Act of Congress, the 18th of June, 1812, and Concluded by Peace, the 15th of February, 1813 British surprised by War - Unprepared - Seek reace - Foster, from Halifax, proposes an Armistice - Accepted by Dearborn - Rejected by Madison - Admiral Warren renews Pacific Overtures - Rejected by Madison - American Terms of Peace - Rejected by Britain -British War Manifesto - Embittered Hostilities - Congress exclude British Seamen, after War, from American Vessels - Cartel, from England, offers to treat - Clay and Russell commissioned - Original Instructions - British triumph in Europe - Instructions, changing Terms - Ghent substituted for Gottenburg, as Place of Conference - First Conference - British Demands - Indian Basis sine qua non - Second Meeting of Commissioners - No Maritime Topic - Altogether Territorial - Castlereagh at Ghent - British Demands increased - Rupture threatened - Suspension of Conferences - Correspondence - American Terms proposed 21th of August - British Terms 13th of October - Uti possidetis - Rejected by the Americans - Effect of the British Defeats at Plattsburg and Baltimore - Change of Tone - Adoption of American Terms - Congress of Vienna - Its Distractions - Maritime European Inclinations - Dissentiment at Ghent between Adams and Clay - Fisheries - Navigation of the Mississippi - Further Negotiations - Final Settlement -Subsequent Treaties, Offspring of the Negotiations at Ghent - Indemnity for Spoliations - For Slaves - Boundaries - Oregon - Louisiana - Congress of Vienna - Project of Treaty - Dispute in the American Mission - Posterior Treaties - Fisheries - Mississippi - Final Conferences - Treaty Signed - Its European Effect - American Welcome of Peace - Effects and Character. Surprised by the American declaration of war, enacted by a weak power quite unprepared, against a strong power completely armed and formidable, but without sufficient forces in America, because made to believe that the United States dared not venture such a conflict, the British government held off hostilities, and tried to pacify the United States, during several months after they feebly essayed war, disastrously by land for conquest, gloriously for defence at sea. The British minister at Washington, who assured his government that there would he no war, nor any thing worse than angry complaints, stopped at Halifax, on his way home, to try and make peace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.