Henry Goulburn
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Henry Goulburn PC FRS was a British Conservative statesman and a member of the Peelite faction after 1846.
Engraving by Henry William Pickersgill, c. 1850
Robert Peel
Treaty of Ghent
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The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. It took effect in February 1815. Both sides signed it on December 24, 1814, in the
Henry Goulburn
…James Meehan named Goulburn, New South Wales after him, a naming that was ratified by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Goulburn also was a negotiator at the Treaty of Ghent, serving on the British delegation from 1814-15. Still retaining office in the Tory government, he became a Privy Counsellor in 1821, and shortly…
The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814 by Charles Amédée Forestier. The leading British delegate Lord Gambier is shaking hands with the American leader John Quincy Adams. The British Undersecretary of State for War and the Colonies, Henry Goulburn, is carrying a red folder.
Plaque at a building in Veldstraat, Ghent, where the American diplomats stayed and one of the locations where the treaty was negotiated. It was located at an Esprit retail store on Veldstraat 47 and placed by the United States Daughters of 1812.
The Peace Bridge between New York and Ontario
John Quincy Adams 1858