<Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Ghent, United Netherlands </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Original signatories </Th> <Td> United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United States of America </Td> </Tr> <P> The Treaty of Ghent (8 Stat. 218) was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . Both sides signed it on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, Belgium . The treaty restored relations between the two nations to status quo ante bellum, restoring the borders of the two countries to the lines before the war started in June 1812 . The Treaty was approved by the UK parliament and signed into law by the Prince Regent (the future King George IV) on December 30, 1814 . It took a month for news of the peace treaty to reach the United States, and in the meantime American forces under Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815 . The Treaty of Ghent was not fully in effect until it was ratified by the U.S. Senate unanimously on February 17, 1815 . It began two centuries of peaceful relations between the U.S. and Britain, although there were a few tense moments such as the Trent Affair . </P> <P> After the abdication of Napoleon in April 1814 British public opinion demanded major gains in the war against the United States . The senior American representative in London told Secretary of State James Monroe: </P>

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