The Treated of Ghent , signed the December 24th 1814, with Ghent (today in Belgium), Kingdom of the Netherlands, mark end of the War of 1812 between the the United States and the the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The British signatories were James Gambier, Henry Goulburn, and William Adams. The Commission of Peace representing the United States was made up of John Quincy Adams, James Asheton Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell and Albert Gallatin.

By signing the treaty, the Americans give up their main aims in this war: to extend their territory by seizing British colonies of north, which will become later the Canada (although their territory extended in certain places), to prevent the boarding in open sea of the American ships by British men-of-war in the search of deserters and enrôlement of force of American citizens in the Royal Navy. However, as the Napoleonean Guerres came to a end, Royal Navy did not need more as many sailors and this objective was not really any more one at the beginning even of this war.

The Treaty invites the two countries to consider the abolition of the draft of the slaves. He also asks the United States to cease the hostilities with regard to the Indiens of America (He will not however even run out two years before the Americans do not attack the Séminoles, in 1816).

The engagements continued during several weeks after the signature of the treaty (as the Bataille of New-Orleans), because the news of its signature spent time to come from in North America. However, according to the terms of the treaty, the war was not officially finished before the ratifications were not exchanged and the treaty published. The Sénat of the United States approved its ratification unanimously the February 16th 1815. President James Madison ratified the treaty the February 17th, it is on this date that the ratifications were exchanged and the treaty was published the February 18th.