The battle of New Orleans was fought a fortnight after the Treaty of Ghent was signed.

The burning of Washington was avenged by the most complete defeat which the British had ever encountered in their long career of military prowess.
By his political life Mr.Gallatin acquired an American reputation; by his management of the finances of the United States he placed himself among the first political economists of the day; but his masterly conduct of the Treaty of Ghent showed him the equal of the best of European statesmen on their own peculiar ground of diplomacy.

No one of American birth has ever rivaled him in this field.

Europeans recognized his pre-eminent genius.

Sismondi praised him in a public discourse.
Humboldt addressed him as his illustrious friend.