The History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain

Containing, Also, a Sketch of the Late Algerine War; And the Treaty Concluded With the Dey of Algiers; Commercial Treaty With Great Britain

Gilbert J. Hunt

• Publisher: Left of Brain Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781396321153
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

The War of 1812 is regarded by many historians as a second war for independence. The History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain gives historical context and explanation for this view, as well as an explanation for how the nations arrived at that point.Written in the style of the King James Bible by Gilbert Hunt, The History of the Late War was intended to give those who lived through the conflict an understanding of its nature and causes. The style of writing was also intended to inspire the youth of the day to take up their own historical and religious studies. With a unique style of presentation that brings the book's text to biblical proportions, The History of the Late War provides modern readers a window through which to see the early 19th century. For history buffs, the appendices at the end of the text provide real documentation of the period – in the form of treaties and agreements – and give further context to the events."It remains only that, faithful to ourselves, entangled in no connections with the views of other powers, and ever ready to accept peace from the hand of justice, we prosecute the war with united counsels and with the ample faculties of the nation until peace be so obtained."
~ President James Madison speaking on the War of 1812

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.

Between the United States of America and the Creek Nation.

JAMES MADISON,

President of the United States of America.

To all and singular to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS certain articles of agreement and capitulation were made and concluded on the ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, between Major General Andrew Jackson, in the name of the President of the United States of America, for and in behalf of the said United States, and the chiefs, deputies, and warriors, of the Creek Nation; and whereas the President having seen and considered the same, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, duly ratified and confirmed the said articles of agreement and capitulation, which are in the words following to wit:

Articles of agreement and capitulation, made and concluded this ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, between major general Andrew Jackson, on behalf of the President of the United States of America, and the chiefs, deputies, and warriors of the Creek Nation.

WHEREAS an unprovoked, inhuman, and sanguinary war, waged by the hostile Creeks against the United States, hath been repelled, prosecuted and determined, successfully, on the part of the said States, in conformity with principles of national justice and honorable warfare—And whereas consideration is due to the rectitude of proceeding dictated by instructions relating to the re-establishment of peace: Be it remembered, that prior to the conquest of that part of the Creek nation hostile to the United States, numberless aggressions had been committed against the peace, the property, and the lives of citizens of the United States, and those of the Creek nation in amity with her, at the mouth of Duck river, Fort Mimms, and elsewhere, contrary to national faith, and the regard due to an article of the treaty concluded at New-York, in the year seventeen hundred ninety, between the two nations : That the United States, previously to the perpetration of such outrages, did, in order to ensure future amity and concord between the Creek nation and the said states, in conformity with the stipulations of former treaties, fulfil, with punctuality and good faith, her engagements to the said nation: that more than two-thirds of the whole number of chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation, disregarding the genuine spirit of existing treaties, suffered themselves to be. instigated to violations of their national honor, and the respect due to a part of their own nation faithful to the United States and the principles of humanity, by impostors denominating themselves Prophets, and by the duplicity and misrepresentation of foreign emissaries, whose governments are at war, open or understood, with the United States. Wherefore,

First—The United States demand an equivalent for all expenses incurred in prosecuting the war to its termination, by a cession of all the territory belonging to the Creek nation within the territories of the United States, lying west, south, and south-eastwardly, of a line to be run and described by persons duly authorised and appointed by the President of the United States—Beginning at a point on the eastern bank of the Coosa river, where the south boundary line of the Cherokee nation crosses the same; running from thence down the said Coosa river with its eastern bank according to its various meanders to a point one mile above the mouth of Cedar creek, at Fort Williams, thence east two miles, thence south two miles, thence west to the eastern bank of the said Coosa river, thence down the eastern hank thereof according to its various meanders to a point opposite the upper end of the great falls, (called by the natives Woetumka) thence east from a true meridian line to a point due north of the mouth of Ofucshee, thence south by a like meridian line to the mouth of Ofucshee on the south side of the T...

Table of contents

• CHAP. I.
• CHAP. II.
• CHAP. III.
• CHAP. IV.
• CHAP. V.
• CHAP. VI.
• CHAP. VII.
• CHAP. VIII.
• CHAP. IX.
• CHAP. X.
• CHAP. XI.
• CHAP. XII.
• CHAP. XIII.
• CHAP. XIV.
• CHAP. XV.
• CHAP. XVI.
• CHAP. XVII.
• CHAP. XVIII.
• CHAP. XIX.
• CHAP. XX.
• CHAP. XXI.
• CHAP. XXII.
• CHAP XXIII.
• CHAP. XXIV.
• CHAP. XXV.
• CHAP. XXVI.
• CHAP. XXVII.
• CHAP. XXVIII.
• CHAP. XXIX.
• CHAP. XXX.
• CHAP. XXXI.
• CHAP. XXXII.
• CHAP. XXXIII.
• CHAP. XXXIV.
• CHAP. XXXV.
• CHAP. XXXVI.
• CHAP. XXXVII.
• CHAP. XXXVIII.
• CHAP. XXXIX.
• CHAP. XL.
• CHAP. XLI.
• CHAP. XLII.
• CHAP. XLIII.
• CHAP. XLIV.
• CHAP. XLV.
• CHAP. XLVII.
• CHAP. XLVIII.
• CHAP. XLIX.
• CHAP. L.
• CHAP. LI.
• CHAP. LII.
• CHAP. LIII.
• CHAP. LIV.
• CHAP. LV.
• ALGERINE WAR.
• CONCLUSION.
• BIBLE SOCIETIES AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS
• COMMERCIAL TREATY.
• DECATUR’S TREATY
• ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.