Most people picture George Washington as the quiet figure on the dollar bill, but there was a moment in his presidency when he rode at the head of an army as if the Revolution had never ended. In 1794, he gathered nearly thirteen thousand militia and marched them toward western Pennsylvania. The target was not a foreign army or a European empire. It was a group of angry American farmers. The trouble had begun three years earlier when the government placed a tax on distilled spirits to pay off de

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