General Washington's Christmas Farewell A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783

Stanley Weintraubis Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Penn State University and the author of numerous histories and biographies includingSilent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, MacArthur's War, Long Day's Journey Into War,andA Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War. Weintraub is a book reviewer forThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, andThe Washington Post. He lives in Newark, Delaware.

Stanley Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Penn State University and the author of notable histories and biographies including 11 Days in December, Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, MacArthur's War, Long Day's Journey into War, and A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War. He lives in Newark, Delaware.

Contents

Preface

1 Beginning the End

2 The Price of Independence

3 To New York City

4 Reoccupation

5 The First Farewell

6 Fraunces Tavern

7 To Philadelphia

8 Arts and Entertainments

9 Toward Annapolis

10 Final Farewell

11 Christmas and After

Notes

Sources

Acknowledgments

Index