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How George Washington stopped a potential military coup with his spectacles


How George Washington stopped a potential military coup with his spectacles
Washington buried his ambitions behind a face of leadership.
By Paul Woodruff
On March 15, 1783, in Newburgh, N.Y., George Washington gave the greatest performance of his career in order to head off a conspiracy that might have led to military government. This was after the victory at Yorktown but before the final signing of the Treaty of Paris in September.
The Congress of that day, the Congress of the Confederation, was less effective than the Congress of our own time, because it could not levy taxes to pay troops. Because of this, many officers believed that this Congress would be unable to govern the new country. Some had wanted Washington to take over as a constitutional monarch while others wanted to overthrow Congress altogether. This had the potential to be our nation’s first coup. Washington got wind of it and, at a meeting of officers, delivered an extraordinary speech entirel ....

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