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This week episode 327 327 continental instability.

We last left the main continental army under General Washington in episode

324. The officers were on the verge of mutiny as they came to believe that Congress would never give them all the benefits they had been promised for their sacrifices, and that they would probably be sent home as paupers,

prison for the debts they had incurred to further the cause of liberty.

Only General Washington's speech at Newburgh in March of 1783 prevented a likely uprising of the Army.

Congress itself of course was broke and deeply in debt.

It had no way to repay its debts, since its delegates would not agree on any real taxing

authority, and the states refused to come up with a way to provide funds needed to pay off

the debts to the army and to everyone else who had

lent Congress money over the years to further the cause of independence.

Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris, Robert Morris, had submitted his resignation, effective at the end of May 1783.

His abilities to create money from nothing had been pushed beyond all reasonable limits.

He told Congress that finding any solutions to its financial problems

was simply beyond his abilities at this point

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