The man who would not be king: at the end of the War for Independence, George Washington foiled a military junta's plan to establish a dictatorship in the United States.(HISTORY--GREATNESS OF THE FOUNDERS)(Newburgh Conspiracy)

It was the end of 1782 and the War for Independence was all but over, but the details of the official peace treaty had not yet been hammered out between the American delegation (John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams) and their British counterpart (David Hartley). The peace was uneasy, however, as British troops remained stationed in New York and various western outposts and American troops were ordered not to stand down until the British abandoned their posts. The lack of martial duties engendered boredom among the soldiers, fresh from victory over a tyrant. From this milieu sprang the plan for a coup d'etat labeled by historians as the Newburgh Conspiracy.

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