200 YEARS AGO TODAY, on Monday, February 13, 1815, THE GREATEST MILITARY ALLIANCE THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN BEGAN IN THE WATER OFF DAUPHIN ISLAND when the HMS Brazen arrived that morning at the Royal Navy's lower British anchorage three miles south of Dauphin Island with news that peace had been signed at Ghent between Great Britain and America on December 24, 1814. THE WAR OF 1812 WAS OVER.
 from page 301-302 of Samuel Carter III's BLAZE OF GLORY:

While the Americans were detained aboard the TONNANT and the British staff debated the next move that would consolidate its gain, a swift frigate approached the anchorage. A lowered gig was rowed toward the flagship, Shepherd was standing on deck beside Admiral Malcolm when the officer approached with a message from the gig. Malcolm read it, threw his hat in the air with an un-British shout, and turning to Shepherd wrung his hand with uninhibited warmth.

"Good news, my friend," he said, "The treaty has been signed in Ghent. We are enemies no longer." then, votto voce, the Admiral added: "To tell you the truth I have hated this war from the beginning." http://mobilebicentennial.blogspot.com