Yes, often times, just to try and get as much territory as possible before it becomes official, territory is often based on what you have at the time of the cease fire, bartered/traded or discussed afterwards, and the more you have the larger your advantage on the negotiating table.
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chicago85
11 years ago
I think in the case of the Battle of New Orleans, the treaty was signed in Europe and word hadn't reached New Orleans yet because it came by sailing ship.
In the American Revolution you read about the northern battles but fighting was vicious in places like South Carolina and continued for a year after the British surrender at Yorktown. That is because much of it was small partisan forces conducting hit and run raids on their neighbors. The movie The Patriot was based on this area.
Some of the losers went to Spanish Florida, the Bahamas or Bermuda to escape being killed after the war.
I remember reading a widow's Revolutitnary war pension application from the 1830's from Mississippi. She was asked if there was any one who could support her husband's service. A lot of the men didn't have discharge papers then.
She said she knew of only one man but did not know how to find him. The man asked to come in during a terrible storm one night and they told him of course. (not much company on what was the frontier then)and people were more courteous too.
In talking they found he came from the same area and knew many of the same people. But then it came out he had been a loyalist. Her husband was enraged and threw him out into the storm. Some of these loyalists moved two or three times westwards as people from their past would move into their area because of old hatreds.
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