Word: ghent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victory was really out of bounds, because the Treaty of Ghent had been executed two weeks before; 'but no more out of bounds, in Secretary Good's opinion, than the cows that now roam the unguarded field where it was achieved. After his victory at New Orleans, "Old Hickory" Jackson returned to Tennessee, where in a cedar grove a dozen miles from Nashville he built for his misunderstood Rachel the Hermitage, famed in Democratic song and story. When Jackson was the first U. S. President of the "common people" (1829-37), the fine ok southern mansion...
...than educated by means of it. A century ago the attitude was different. For example, 16-year-old James Gallatin, son of famed Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, was taken to Europe as private secretary on the father's diplomatic mission which resulted in the Treaty of Ghent...
...Hugh S. Gibson had to poke and pull some of the delegates to show them that the slender lady was Queen Elizabeth, with whom they might shake hands also. Ambassador Gibson introduced the delegation by saying: "There they are, your Majesty. They have fought at Oudenarde, Courtrai, Bruges and Ghent...
Albert Gallatin of Pennsylvania, once a teacher of French in Harvard College, who became minister to France and to England and negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, and who as Secretary of the Treasury, during the administrations of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, financed the Louisiana Purchase...
...Tribunal finally decided to award the Canadian Cayugas the sum of $100,000, a tenth of what they had asked. This sum is to be held by the Canadian and British governments. It was held that the Treaty of Ghent promised to put them where they were before the war of 1812, when they received their share, but that the payments made by New York in good faith from 1810 to 1842, before the claim was brought before the New York Legislature should stand...