World Leaders in Wartime: George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
World Leaders in Wartime: George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
In 1794 the new American republic was beset by a host of “enemies,” foreign and domestic. For George Washington, the greatest of these came from the disgruntled citizens of the Appalachian west who sought to resist the federal government’s ability to collect taxes and codify its powers. The Whiskey Rebellion was the first true test […]