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A Year With George Washington – January 27th

January 27, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

The mutinies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops end with the ringleaders executed by firing squad.

A Year With George Washington – January 26th

January 26, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

The long-serving governor of New York and future Vice President, George Clinton, writes to General Washington about the shortage of supplies and mutiny in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey lines.

A Year With George Washington – January 25th

January 25, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

General Washington, in a rare use of powers granted to him by the Continental Congress, issues a proclamation requiring citizens pledge an Oath of Loyalty or be sent behind British lines.

A Year With George Washington – January 24th

January 24, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

Washington announces the location of the federal district.

A Year With George Washington – January 23rd

January 23, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

General Washington masterfully diffuses the "Conway Cabal."

A Year With George Washington – January 22nd

January 22, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

President Washington, after years of wrangling with the various interests involved, appoints commissioners for the federal district and capital.

A Year With George Washington – January 21st

January 21, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

President Washington wrote to Thomas Jefferson, urging him to accept his appointment as Secretary of State and to make haste in arriving at his post.

A Year With George Washington – January 20th

January 20, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

Inauguration Day was not always held on January 20th as it is today.

A Year With George Washington – January 19th

January 19, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

President George Washington formally solicited an opinion from the Senate about a grievance lodged by the charge d'affaires of France in the name of King Louis XVI.

A Year With George Washington – January 18th

January 18, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

Washington, having returned to his beloved Mount Vernon just after the Revolutionary War, writes to Virginia Governor Benjamin Harrison regarding the future of the now independent nation.

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