The Battle of New Orleans was fought after the Treaty of Ghent had already been signed, since it took weeks to get word of the peace across the Atlantic. Thanks for showing up almost two centuries later, Internet. (Source)

While negotiations for the Treaty of Ghent were happening, New England Federalists gathered at the Hartford Convention, a secret meeting where they considered seceding from the Union over the unpopular war. News of the Treaty of Ghent reached American shores just after the convention. It was like they walked out of the movie theater with five minutes to go. (Source)

John Quincy Adams, the head American negotiator at Ghent, used to leave his girlfriend's family dinner parties early because he didn't like to hear women singing. Not even Adele. Somehow, she still married him. (Source)

Henry Clay, one of the American ambassadors, ran for President three times under three different political parties—and came up short three times. If presidencies were Super Bowls, he was the anti-Tom Brady. (Source)

During the Ghent negotiations, the Duke of Wellington, Britain's most powerful military leader, told the Prime Minister, "I think you have no right, from the state of war, to demand any concession of territory from America." Thanks for the support, Duke. (Source)