Posts Tagged ‘Map showing U.S. Territorial gains’

The point is that no country had surveyed the land well enough to accurately set the boundaries of the Louisiana Territory or Columbia. The Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812, caused a sea change in the relationship between the United States and our mother country, Great Britain. It was as if British politicians suddenly realized that their 32-year-old son (born in 1783) was about to make a name for himself. During the U.S. first 32 years, we fought the British twice, and each time, the Brits came up a cropper.