Answer:
Simply because technological limitation preventing instant messaging across the Atlantic
Explanation:
Jackson and his soldier in New Orleans were thousands of Miles away form Ghent, so neither the British Soldiers nor Jackson knew anything until the treaty was signed and delivered across the Atlantic and THEN has to be delivered by horse to Jackson by some Government messenger
Answer: Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II were third cousins (both were great-great-grandsons of Paul I of Russia) as well as being second cousins once removed (both were descended from Frederick William III of Prussia) and the Kaiser was a first cousin of Nicholas's wife, Alix of Hesse.
Explanation:
One way to travel to the West was to sail around the tip of South America, the other way was to travel to the end of the railroad line and take a rough trail on land in wagons pulled by horses, mule, or oxen