Washington resigns his commission
1783 · Event
The victorious commander-in-chief appears before Congress at Annapolis and hands back his sword to return to his farm — an act with almost no precedent since Cincinnatus. George III reportedly said that if Washington did this he would be 'the greatest man in the world'. He did it twice.
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