Washington's farewell to his officers in 1783 from a painting by Alonzo Chappell, 1866, engraving by T. Phillibrown printed circa 1879 by Henry J. Johnson Publisher, New York.

GENERAL WASHINGTON'S CHRISTMAS FAREWELL: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783 Stanley Weintraub, . . Free Press, $25 (205pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-4654-5 ...

The farewell dinner for Washington and his officers took place in the tavern’s Long Room. “With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you,” he told them.

On Nov. 2, 1783, Gen. George Washington stood on the balcony of a grand house near Princeton and bade a tearful farewell to his troops who had braved battles, disease and bitter winters to win ...

This was the regiment that garrisoned Saratoga, present-day Schuylerville, during Gen. George Washington's 1783 visit. Most Continental and militia regiments were racially integrated.

On this day in 1783, George Washington, then commanding general of the Continental Army, summoned his officers to Fraunces Tavern in New York City to inform them that he planned to resign his ...

Richard Snow reviews “The Return of George Washington, 1783-1789,” by Edward J. Larson.

While George Washington is one of the most written about of our presidents, ... Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson does just that in “The Return of George Washington 1783-1789.” ...

American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783 William M. Fowler Jr. Walker & Co., 330 pp., $27 Reviewed by Terry Golway Thomas Paine wrote a famous ...

On Dec. 23, 1783, George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Army and retired to his Virginia home. In 1788 Maryland ceded a 10-square-mile area for use as the national capital. Along ...