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Washington defuses the threatened uprising
- When
- March 1783
- Where
- Continental Army camp at Newburgh, New York
- Part of
- Newburgh Conspiracy
In March 1783, George Washington calmed the soldiers and helped secure back pay, defusing the apparent threat by army leaders.
The Army's commander, George Washington, successfully calmed the soldiers and helped secure back pay. The Newburgh Conspiracy was a failed apparent threat by leaders of the Continental Army in March 1783, at the end of the American Revolutionary War. The legacy row's date of March 15, 1783 is not directly confirmed by the supplied passages, which date the anonymous letter to March 10.
Sources
- Newburgh Conspiracy Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-03
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