[A Straight Deal by Owen Wister]@TWC D-Link bookA Straight Deal CHAPTER XI: Some Family Scraps 5/27
We made the Treaty of Ghent.
The impressing of sailors from our vessels was tacitly abandoned. The next time that people were removed from vessels, it was not England who removed them, it was we ourselves, who had declared war on England for doing so, we ourselves who removed them from Canadian vessels in the Behring Sea, and from the British ship Trent.
These incidents we shall reach in their proper place.
As a result of the War of 1812, some English felt justified in taking from us a large slice of land, but Wellington said, "I think you have no right, from the state of the war, to demand any concession of territory from America." This is all that need be said about our War of 1812. Because I am trying to give only the large incidents, I have intentionally made but a mere allusion to Florida and our acquisition of that territory.
It was a case again of England's siding with us against a third power, Spain, in this instance.
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