“The Storm . . . is dispersed,” he reported to Joseph Jones, his friend in Congress, on March 18.33 “The Virtue, & patient forbearance of the Army, on this, as upon every other trying occasion which has happened to call them into action, has again triumphed.” He had put down “a most insiduous attempt to disturb the repose of the Army, & sow the seeds of discord between the Civil & military powers of the continent.”34 Washington’s quashing of military dissent would resonate down through the decades, underscoring that the American armed forces are subordinate to civilian authority, most
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“The storm” being Washington’s officers and soldiers being fed up Congress hadn’t paid them what they were owed. They were long overdue.
