General Washingtons Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783
by By Weintraub, Stanley
Category: History , United States , Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

Washington had a long way to go before he could get home. First, he had to thank those who had supported him and his troops. He went from Princeton to New York to Philadelphia, giving stirring speeches and enduring the attentions of the fawning public. Then he had to resign his commission at Annapolis and give his farewells to his comrades in nearly a decade of suffering and war. Only then could he hope to return to his farm in Virginia. Somehow, he made it just in time, as he had promised, on Christmas Eve. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)