![]() He had been away from home since 1775, when the Continental Congress commissioned him commander in chief. ![]() He had been biding his time in the town of Newburgh, his headquarters up the Hudson River from New York City, waiting for delivery of the peace treaty marking the war's official end, but he had Mount Vernon uppermost in his mind. In the late autumn and early winter of 1783, George Washington began what he often called "a long farewell" to the officers and soldiers who had served him in the American colonists' war against Great Britain, and to the former colonists themselves. ![]()
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