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The Newburgh Conspiracy was what appeared to be a threatened uprising in the Continental Army in March 1783, when the American Revolutionary War was at its end. Possibly instigated by political actors in the Congress of the Confederation, an anonymous letter was circulated in the army camp at Newburgh, New York, on March 10, 1783. The letter suggested that the army, whose soldiers were discontented over pay that was in arrears and a lack of funding for promised pensions, should take unspecified action against Congress to resolve the issue. The letter was written by Major John Armstrong, aide to General Horatio Gates, although the authorship of its text and underlying ideas is a subject of historical debate.
Commander-in-Chief George Washington stopped any serious talk by appealing successfully to his officers to support the supremacy of Congress in an emotional address on March 15. Not long afterward, Congress approved a compromise agreement it had previously rejected: some of the pay arrears were funded, and soldiers were granted five years of full pay instead of a lifetime pension of half pay.
George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was the first President of the United States (1789–97), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the current United States Constitution and during his lifetime was called the "father of his country".
Widely admired for his strong leadership qualities, Washington was unanimously elected president in the first two national elections. He oversaw the creation of a strong, well-financed national government that maintained neutrality in the French Revolutionary Wars, suppressed the Whiskey Rebellion, and won acceptance among Americans of all types. Washington's incumbency established many precedents, still in use today, such as the cabinet system, the inaugural address, and the title Mr. President. His retirement from office after two terms established a tradition that lasted until 1940, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term. The 22nd Amendment (1951) now limits the president to eight years in office.
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Many Americans, even more than the military officers promised pensions for their service in the Revolutionary War, wanted order, by any means necessary, in the war's aftermath. George Washington may have saved the revolution by refusing to lead or allow a military takeover of the government. His response to the conspiracy established the principle of military subservience to civilian authority, perhaps the most important of his many contributions to the American system of government. The clips are from PBS: “Liberty’s Kids”; George Washington (1984); TLC: “Myth America”; PBS: “George Washington”; HBO: “Animated Heroes”; PBS: “Washington”.
Since 1975, the Society of the Cincinnati has sponsored the annual George Rogers Clark Lecture, which recognizes the scholarship of leading historians of the American Revolution. Some of the Clark Lecturers-most notably Edmund S. Morgan, whose The Genius of George Washington is a classic of Washington scholarship-have presented lectures that stand alone as important works of scholarship. Others, including David McCullough, have offered a very personal perspective on one of their major published works. Gordon S. Wood and others have distilled a generation of classroom teaching and scholarship into a synthesis illuminating the major significance of the American Revolution. Still others, including David Hackett Fischer, have offered a glimpse of the historian's craft by presenting a lecture b...
Jilon VanOver delivers George Washington's Newburgh address.
The Revolutionary War had ended, but Congress had yet to find the funds to pay the officers and men for their service. Hints that the army, led by long-time Washington rival Horatio Gates, might refuse to disband, and possibly march on Philadelphia “to demand satisfaction” from Congress, reached George Washington, who decided to confront the restless troops at Newburgh. If the point of the war had been to give the American people the opportunity to make a choice of government for themselves, then the Revolution, so newly nearly won, was about to be lost. By threatening to impose its will on the Congress, the Continental Army was about to make that choice for the country. The clip is from PBS: "George Washington".
Battle of Yorktown, Newburgh Conspiracy
Newburgh Conspiracy The Newburgh Conspiracy was what appeared to be a threatened uprising in the Continental Army in March 1783, when the American Revolutionary War was at its end. =======Image-Copyright-Info======== License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0) LicenseLink: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Author: Daniel Case Link: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Case Author-Info: The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia Image Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Windsor_Cantonment.jpg =======Image-Copyright-Info======== -Video is targeted to blind users Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA image source in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL1ip3Qqy4w
The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, some time in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen. The children, brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green colour of their skin. They spoke in an unknown language, and the only food they would eat was beans. Eventually they learned to eat other food and lost their green pallor, but the boy was sickly and died soon after he and his sister were baptised. The girl adjusted to her new life, but she was considered to be "rather loose and wanton in her conduct". After she learned to speak English, the girl explained that she and her brother had come from St Martin's Land, an undergr...
Many Americans, even more than the military officers promised pensions for their service in the Revolutionary War, wanted order, by any means necessary, in the war's aftermath. George Washington may have saved the revolution by refusing to lead or allow a military takeover of the government. His response to the conspiracy established the principle of military subservience to civilian authority, perhaps the most important of his many contributions to the American system of government. The clips are from PBS: “Liberty’s Kids”; George Washington (1984); TLC: “Myth America”; PBS: “George Washington”; HBO: “Animated Heroes”; PBS: “Washington”.
Since 1975, the Society of the Cincinnati has sponsored the annual George Rogers Clark Lecture, which recognizes the scholarship of leading historians of the American Revolution. Some of the Clark Lecturers-most notably Edmund S. Morgan, whose The Genius of George Washington is a classic of Washington scholarship-have presented lectures that stand alone as important works of scholarship. Others, including David McCullough, have offered a very personal perspective on one of their major published works. Gordon S. Wood and others have distilled a generation of classroom teaching and scholarship into a synthesis illuminating the major significance of the American Revolution. Still others, including David Hackett Fischer, have offered a glimpse of the historian's craft by presenting a lecture b...
Jilon VanOver delivers George Washington's Newburgh address.
The Revolutionary War had ended, but Congress had yet to find the funds to pay the officers and men for their service. Hints that the army, led by long-time Washington rival Horatio Gates, might refuse to disband, and possibly march on Philadelphia “to demand satisfaction” from Congress, reached George Washington, who decided to confront the restless troops at Newburgh. If the point of the war had been to give the American people the opportunity to make a choice of government for themselves, then the Revolution, so newly nearly won, was about to be lost. By threatening to impose its will on the Congress, the Continental Army was about to make that choice for the country. The clip is from PBS: "George Washington".
Battle of Yorktown, Newburgh Conspiracy
Newburgh Conspiracy The Newburgh Conspiracy was what appeared to be a threatened uprising in the Continental Army in March 1783, when the American Revolutionary War was at its end. =======Image-Copyright-Info======== License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0) LicenseLink: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Author: Daniel Case Link: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Case Author-Info: The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia Image Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Windsor_Cantonment.jpg =======Image-Copyright-Info======== -Video is targeted to blind users Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA image source in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL1ip3Qqy4w
The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, some time in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen. The children, brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green colour of their skin. They spoke in an unknown language, and the only food they would eat was beans. Eventually they learned to eat other food and lost their green pallor, but the boy was sickly and died soon after he and his sister were baptised. The girl adjusted to her new life, but she was considered to be "rather loose and wanton in her conduct". After she learned to speak English, the girl explained that she and her brother had come from St Martin's Land, an undergr...
"Blind and Gray in Your Service: George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy." Talk at Mount Vernon, July 26, 2016.
Since 1975, the Society of the Cincinnati has sponsored the annual George Rogers Clark Lecture, which recognizes the scholarship of leading historians of the American Revolution. Some of the Clark Lecturers-most notably Edmund S. Morgan, whose The Genius of George Washington is a classic of Washington scholarship-have presented lectures that stand alone as important works of scholarship. Others, including David McCullough, have offered a very personal perspective on one of their major published works. Gordon S. Wood and others have distilled a generation of classroom teaching and scholarship into a synthesis illuminating the major significance of the American Revolution. Still others, including David Hackett Fischer, have offered a glimpse of the historian's craft by presenting a lecture b...