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- Not long afterward, Congress approved a compromise agreement that it had previously rejected: it funded some of the pay arrears, and granted soldiers five years of full pay instead of a lifetime pension of half pay.
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Not long afterward, Congress approved a compromise agreement that it had previously rejected: it funded some of the pay arrears, and granted soldiers five years of full pay instead of a lifetime pension of half pay.
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Two days following Washington’s surprise arrival to the Newburgh camp, news of it spread to Philadelphia. Copies of Washington’s address spread throughout the city. On March 19, 1783, Congress voted to allow commutation for all soldiers in the form of full pay for five years.
The Newburgh Conspiracy was a plan by Continental Army officers to challenge the authority of the Confederation Congress, arising from their frustration with Congress's long-standing inability to meet its financial obligations to the military.
The Newburgh conspiracy was an alleged 1783 plot by officers of the Continental Army to impose their will upon the national government. Their motive was the Confederation Congress’s inability to pay arrears of salary and its unwillingness to provide pensions.
In March of 1783, George Washington faced a serious threat to his authority and to the civil government of the new nation. The Continental Army, based in Newburgh, New York, was awaiting word of peace negotiations between Great Britain and the United States.
Newburgh “conspiracy” (1783).Following victory at the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781, George Washington 's army returned to the Hudson Highlands to stand watch over the British garrison at New York City, forty‐five miles downriver.
NEWBURGH CONSPIRACY. One of the Revolutionary War's most dramatic scenes occurred at the Continental Army camp near Newburgh, New York, on 15 March 1783. Five days earlier, an anonymous letter had urged officers to take bold action against the Continental Congress for its delay in fulfilling promises of pay and pensions.
