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Anglo-American borderlands · Diplomacy
Convention of 1818
20 October 1818
Britain and the United States settle portions of the border and agree to joint occupation in the northwest.
Participants
- United States negotiators
- British negotiators
- borderland communities
Outcome
The convention settled portions of the boundary and provided for joint occupation farther west.
Why it matters
Postwar agreements built a managed border even while leaving other peoples' sovereignty unrecognized.
Location evidence
49.000, -95.000 · regional precision
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Evidence behind this event
- Rush–Bagot Pact and Convention of 1818Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State · diplomatic history
Border settlement and demilitarization after the war.