Jun 2, 2020
11 min read
1783: General George Washington Intervenes Against The Newburgh Conspiracy
In the closing days of the American Revolutionary War discontent seized a number of soldiers in the victorious Continental Army. By this time, many soldiers were unhappy that they had not been paid for quite some time, since early 1782 in fact when stopped by Financier Robert Morris, and worse, that the pensions that they had been promised were at this point…
