ARP337 Mount Vernon Conference

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

George Washington began what he thought would be his retirement in 1784. Following a visit from the Marquis de Lafayette that year, Washington put aside retirement to return to his lifelong dream of establishing a trade route to the west that used the Potomac River, that flowed past Mount Vernon. He got Maryland and Virginia to pass laws allowing for this, but found the implementation of such a route much more difficult than he anticipated. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West, by Robert Kapsch (borrow on archive.org). Online Recommendation of the Week: A New Chapter in the Early Life of Washington, In Connection with the Narrative History of the Potomac Company, by John Pickell. Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.6	This week, episode 337, the Mount Vernon Conference.
0:56.0	This week, we're going to take a look at the post-war years primarily from George Washington's perspective. Washington had resigned his commission at the end
1:01.5	of 1783 and returned to Mount Vernon just in time for Christmas. His letters from this time
1:07.7	indicate he was happy for his time in public service to be over.
1:12.0	At the ripe old age of 52, he was considering his own mortality.
1:16.7	Four of his six brothers and two of his three sisters had already died, and he'd already
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