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__NOTOC__[[File:Rush-Bagot_Treaty.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Plaque commemorating the Rush-Bagot Pact in front of the Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C.]]
The Rush-Bagot Pact was an agreement between the United States and Great Britain to eliminate their fleets from the Great Lakes, excepting small patrol vessels. The Convention of 1818 set the boundary between the Missouri Territory in the United States and British North America (later Canada) at the forty-ninth parallel. Both agreements reflected the easing of diplomatic tensions that had led to the War of 1812 and marked the beginning of Anglo-American cooperation.
====Disarming the British and American navies on the Great Lakes====
====Relations improve between US and Britain after War of 1812====
[[File:John_Quincy_Adams_-_copy_of_1843_Philip_Haas_Daguerreotype.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|John Quincy Adams in 1843 from daguerreotype by Philip Haas]]
Although tensions between Great Britain and the United States remained high along the Great Lakes, overall relations improved. Postwar trade rebounded, and British political leaders increasingly viewed the United States as a valuable trading partner, while also realizing that British North America would be expensive and difficult to defend should another war break out. When U.S. Minister to Great Britain, John Quincy Adams, proposed disarmament on January 25, 1816, British Foreign Secretary Viscount Castlereagh responded favorably. The British Government had already dispatched Charles Bagot as Minister to the United States with the intention of improving relations between the two countries.
