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The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5)

CHAPTER II
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Peace....

Mutiny of a part of the Pennsylvania line....

Evacuation of New York....
General Washington resigns his commission and retires to Mount Vernon.
{1782} [Sidenote: Preparations for another campaign.] The splendid success of the allied arms in Virginia, and the great advantages obtained still farther south, produced no disposition in General Washington to relax those exertions which might be necessary to secure the great object of the contest.

"I shall attempt to stimulate congress," said he, in a letter to General Greene written at Mount Vernon, "to the best improvement of our late success, by taking the most vigorous and effectual measures to be ready for an early and decisive campaign the next year.

My greatest fear is, that viewing this stroke in a point of light which may too much magnify its importance, they may think our work too nearly closed, and fall into a state of languor and relaxation.


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