Oregon Treaty

Oregon Treaty
Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America, for the Settlement of the Oregon Boundary
	Map of the lands in dispute
Type	Bilateral treaty
Signed	15 June 1846
Location	Washington, D.C., United States
Original; signatories	United Kingdom; United States;
Language	English
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The Oregon Treaty^[1] is a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C. The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S. since the Treaty of 1818.^[2]

^ officially titled the Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America, for the Settlement of the Oregon Boundary and styled in the United States as the Treaty with Great Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains, and also known as the Buchanan-Pakenham (or Packenham) Treaty or (sharing the name with several other unrelated treaties) the Treaty of Washington
^ David M. Pletcher, The Diplomacy of Annexation: Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War. (U of Missouri Press, 1973).