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The failure by either side to win a decisive victory led to a peace treaty signed at Ghent in December 1814 which restored the status quo. The slow communications of the day meant that the bloody clash at New Orleans was fought after the war ended. The Upper Canadian perspective on the war and its end is well
illustrated in the letter below from George Ridout to Abraham
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| An American observer of the war, Nathan Ford,
lamented the failure of the United States to gain a clear military
advantage in a war that was to have been a "mere matter of
marching":
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egotiations
for a peace treaty had started in 1813 but dragged on as each
side attempted to gain an advantage that would settle the war
in their favour. 