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, 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 some time and that pensions that had been promised remained unfunded.
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
Newburgh is a city in Orange County, New York, United States. With a population of 28,856 as of the 2020 census, it is a principal city of the Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh metropolitan area. Located 60 miles (97 km) north of New York City, and 90 miles (140 km) south of Albany on the Hudson River within the Hudson Valley Area, the city of Newburgh is located near Stewart International Airport, one of the primary airports for Downstate New York.
Downtown Newburgh from Beacon, across the Hudson River
Woodcut of Newburgh in 1842, when the Dutch Reformed Church, had its original dome and lantern
Water Street c. 1906; the buildings were demolished in urban renewal efforts of the 1960s and 1970s.
City manager Joseph Mitchell attending the Newburgh City Council in 1961
