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Rush-Bagot Convention



Rush-Bagot Convention (1817), negotiations, after the War of 1812, between U.S. diplomat Richard Rush and the British minister to Washington, Sir Charles Bagot, which agreed to mutual U.S.-British disarmament on the Great Lakes.

See also: War of 1812.

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