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War of 1812
Timeline: 1815
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War of 1812 in a Nutshell
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these timelines of the War of 1812 are too detailed,
check the
War
of 1812 - Key Events,
which are a summary of the years
1812-1815.
January 2, 1815
Following Andrew Jackson's
request for support, Adjutant General John Adair and 700 militia
from Kentucky arrive at New Orleans. Only half of them are armed.
January 5, 1815
The
Hartford Convention ends.
It had begun on December 15, 1814.
January 7, 1815
Bayard leaves Ghent for Paris
where he will arrive on January 11, 1815.
January 8, 1815
The
Battle of New Orleans
is fought because news of the peace treaty
didn't travel fast enough. The US win this battle. More than 300
people are killed in this battle for a war that was already over.
January 11, 1815
Bayard
arrives at Paris. He stays put for the
moment because the U.S. and Britain have
also agreed to negotiate a treaty of
commerce.
January 13, 1815
A
British force overwhelms 116 US
regulars at
Point Peter, Georgia, destroying the fort and barracks.
January 15, 1815
HMS
Endymion, Tenedos, Pomone
vs. USS President. The President
has to surrender.
January 13, 1815
A British force overwhelms 116 US regulars at
Point Peter, Georgia, destroying the fort and barracks.
February 8, 1815
News of the peace
treaty at Ghent arrives in North America.
February 11, 1815
Second Battle of Fort Bowyer.
After a light skirmish, U.S. Major William
Lawrence and his 375 troops surrender to 5,000 British
troops on land and surrounding British
warships. The British capture the fort.
The
First Battle of Fort
Bowyer took place September
14 and 15, 1814.
February 15, 1815
The U.S.
Congress ratifies the Treaty of Ghent.
February 17, 1815
At 11:00 P.M., ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent are
exchanged and President Madison declares the
war at an end.
The War of 1812 ends.
Octagon House in Washington D.C.: Room in which President Madison
signed the Treaty of Ghent. Table is original.
Library of
Congress
Here you can see the entire
Octagon House
Shortly afterward, the artist John Rubens Smith
(who lived 1775-1849) took ink and watercolor
and illustrated the end of this war as follows:
Peace
Library of
Congress
The Library of Congress explains further:
In an allegory of the Treaty of Ghent,
signed on Dec. 24, 1814, Britannia and
America hold olive branches before an altar.
Sailors, holding British and American flags,
hold an uninscribed banner; through drapes
and pillars a dove flies out of a triangle.
February 20, 1815
USS Constitution vs. HMS
Cyane and Levant. Both British ships
surrender to U.S. Capt.
Charles Stewart.
March 4, 1815
Bayard is still at Paris, waiting for
further development for negotiations of a treaty
of commerce with Britain. Unfortunately for him,
today he gets ill and won't recover.
March 23, 1815
USS Hornet vs. HMS Penguin.
The Penguin surrenders.
April 15, 1815
Dartmoor Prison Massacre
May 10, 1815
Bayard leaves Paris for Plymouth via
Havre.
May 14, 1815
Bayard arrives at Plymouth, ready to
sail back to the States. But his ship won't set sail
for another five weeks.
June 22, 1815
Napoleon abdicates for
the second and final time.
Check this event in the
timeline of the Napoleonic Wars.
June 30, 1815
USS Peacock vs. Nautilus.
U.S. "victory." This encounter takes place in
the Sunda Strait off Anyer, Java, Indonesia.
The
Peacock demands surrender, the Nautilus,
a brig sailing for the East India Company, refuses
and claims the war had ended. The Peacock thought
this to be trickery and attacks. The Nautilus
immediately surrenders.
Casualties on the Nautilus: 6 killed, several
wounded. Lt. Charles Boyce, commander of the
Nautilus, will lose his leg.
July 3, 1815
A treaty of commerce is concluded between the United States and Great Britain.
Officially, it is A Convention to Regulate the Commerce between the
Territories of The United States and of His Britannick Majesty.
For the U.S. signed John Quincy Adams, Albert
Gallatin, and Henry Clay; for Britain Frederick John Robinson, Henry Goulburn,
and William Adams.
July 4, 1815
Clay leaves London for Liverpool. Gallatin is just
a little bit behind and will follow shortly.
July 23, 1815
Clay and Gallatin sail on the Lorenzo from
Liverpool. They will arrive in New York on September 1, 1815.
July 31, 1815
A very ill Bayard arrives back in the
States and disembarks at Wilmington in
Delaware.
August 6, 1815
James
Asheton Bayard, moderate Federalist
from Delaware and one of the signatories to the
Treaty of Ghent, dies nine days after his
forty-eighth birthday.
September 1, 1815
Clay
and Gallatin arrive at New York.
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