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This week episode 331 Washington goes home.

Last week we covered the British evacuation of New York.

At the same time that the British were leaving,

the Continental Army was continuing its process of disbanding.

As we discussed back in episode 327,

the Continental Congress furloughed most of the Army in June of 1783.

The furloughs allowed the soldiers to return home, but avoided the issue of settling their back pay and other benefits that were owed to them, and it also permitted the Congress to call the Army if some unforeseen events happened and the Army had to react.

By October, Congress made that furlow permanent and discharged everyone that was already on

furlow. It also discharged all the Continental

soldiers except for a small contingent at Fort Pitt and a few hundred officers and men who were

still in New York. Washington, who was in Princeton with Congress at the time, had been lobbying for a standing army to remain during the peace.

Part of Washington's concerns were over the Western forts, such as Detroit, which were supposed to be turned over to the Americans, but were still being held by the British.

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