A couple of weeks before the Battle of New Orleans, the U.S. and British governments had negotiated and signed a peace treaty that put an effective end to the war between the two countries. Given that news from Europe took about a month to reach the U.S., both the U.S. soldiers led by General Andrew Jackson and the Red Coats led by General Sir Edward Pakenham was a pointless confrontation. A few weeks after the resounding U.S. victory (only 13 men were killed on the U.S. side and 285 on the British side), Jackson and his men got news of the peace treaty signed before their feat of arms.
I think that the world would be a better place because the money from the usa would be spread all around the world but many important discoveries won't be made
Hudson:claimed the New York area for the Dutch
The 1973 oil embargo was aimed primarily at the United States and the Netherlands.
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