the final battle of the war of 1812 was the battle of new orleanshis battle gave a cleardemonstration of the need for effective communication during wartime; it also showed the disastrousresults that can come to pass when communication is inadequate. The War of 1812 was fought between Great Britain and the very young country of the UnitedStates only a relatively few years after the United States had won its independence from Britain. TheUnited States had declared war against Britain in June of 1812, mostly because of interference withU.S. shipping by the British and because of the shanghaiing of U.S. sailors for enforced service onBritish vessels. The war lasted for a little more than two years, when a peace treaty was signed atGhent, in Belgium, on the 24th of December, 1814. Unfortunately, the news that the Treaty of Ghent had been signed and that the war was officiallyover was not communicated in a timely manner over the wide distance to where the war was beingcontested. Negotiations for the treaty and the actual signing of the treaty took place in Europe, andnews of the treaty had to be carried across the Atlantic to the war front by ship. A totally unnecessaryloss of life was incurred as a result of the amount of time that it took to inform the combatants of thetreaty. Early in January of 1815, some two weeks after the peace treaty had been signed, Britishtroops in the southern part of the United States were unaware that the war had officially ended. Over 5,000 British troops attacked U.S. troops. During the ensuing battle, known as the Battle ofNew Orleans, the British suffered a huge number of casualties, around 2,000, and the Americans lost7 1 , all in a battle fought only because news of the peace treaty that had already been signed in Ghenthad not yet reached the battlefield.
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