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Swords in Their Hands - George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy (Paperback)
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Swords in Their Hands - George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy (Paperback)
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"Swords in Their Hands: George Washington and the Newburgh
Conspiracy," is the first book-length account of a plot that can be
described as the closest thing to a coup that the United States has
ever experienced. In the autumn of 1782, many Revolutionary War
officers in the Hudson Highlands have grown angry and frustrated
that they have not been paid in months or even years. With victory
over the British within sight, they begin to fear that they will
never get their back pay and promised postwar pensions, because the
Continental Congress in Philadelphia, meeting under the Articles of
Confederation of 1777, has no power to raise funds to pay them. Two
political factions are at loggerheads over taxation: nationalists
want Congress to have direct taxation authority, while their
opponents insist that only individual states should have the power
to do so, as is the case under the Articles. As the new year begins
and the last months of the war approach, several key army officers,
supported by some nationalist members of Congress, set in motion a
desperate plot: they will terrify state legislators, and their
delegates in Congress, into granting Congress direct taxation
authority it needs, under threat of two alternatives. One option is
that, after defeating the British, they will turn their armies
toward Philadelphia itself to enforce their demands; alternatively,
they will lay down their arms before victory is achieved, and let
the British quell the colonists' rebellion. In March hundreds of
Washington's officers, "ready for revolt," gather in Newburgh, NY
to agree on the first steps toward implementing their plan. But to
their shock and chagrin, General Washington himself arrives, and in
a 15-minute address changes the course of history. Having himself
"grown almost blind in the service of my country," he gently chides
the officers, puts down the uprising, and saves the future nation.
General
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