Newburgh Conspiracy
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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 Army's commander, George Washington, successful
The reconstructed Temple at the New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site in New Windsor, New York, where the critical meeting took place on March 15, 1783
General Alexander McDougall
Gouverneur Morris (left) and Robert Morris (right), portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1783
Colonel John Brooks, 1820 portrait by Gilbert Stuart
The Congress of the Confederation, or the Confederation Congress, formally referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled, was the governing body of the United States from March 1, 1781, until
Newburgh Conspiracy
…commander, George Washington, successfully calmed the soldiers and helped secure back pay. The conspiracy may have been instigated by members in the Congress of the Confederation, which circulated an anonymous letter in the army camp at Newburgh, New York, on March 10, 1783. Soldiers were unhappy that they had not been paid for…
General George Washington Resigning His Commission, an 1824 portrait of George Washington by John Trumbull
Independence Hall