After subduing a mutiny in camp at Morristown, New Jersey, General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, orders the execution of two mutineers.

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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 28.

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