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US Offers Peace, August 24, 1812 President Madison makes liberal advances toward reconciliation in a dispatch to the British Government, offering to agree to an armistice on a tacit understanding, instead of a positive stipulation, that no more American seamen should be impressed into the British service. In other words, if they would just say they would stop privately, we would declare peace. This may be the offer accepted in the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, which could be why impressment is never mentioned in that treaty. |
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