Webster-Ashburton Treaty
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty ( English for: Webster-Ashburton Treaty ) is a treaty signed on August 9, 1842 in Washington, DC , which regulates the border between the US state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick . He ended the so-called Aroostook War between the United States and the British colony of New Brunswick.
Furthermore, he reaffirmed the course of the border between Canada and the United States already defined in previous treaties :
- the boundary between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods as established in the Peace of Paris of 1783 and
- the boundary between Minnesota and the Rocky Mountains as set out in the London Treaty of 1818 .
It also contains regulations on the common use of the Great Lakes and on the fight to end the overseas slave trade .
The namesake and main signatory were Daniel Webster , then Secretary of State of the United States , and the British politician Alexander Baring , 1st Baron Ashburton .
literature
- William Beach Lawrence: Visitation and search: or, an historical sketch of the British claim to exercise a maritime police over the vessels of all nations in peace as well as in war with an inquiry into the expediency of terminating the Eighth Article of the Ashburton Treaty . Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, BOSTON 1858.
- Hugh Taylor Gordon: The treaty of Washington, concluded August 9, 1842, by Daniel Webster and Lord Ashburton . The James Bryce historical prize essay for 1907. Publisher: University Press Berkeley, 1908
- Howard Jones: To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty: A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1843. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1977, ISBN 978-0-8078-1306-5 .