Washington's farewell to his officers

the long version

In New York City,1783, British redcoats sailed away, defeated in the Revolution, and there occurred this emotional incident--one almost forgotten in American history, yet among the most telling and symbolic events of the War for Independence. In the story of Washington's Farewell are the memories of long-struggling patriots--the famous and the little-known--men committed heart and soul to the cause of American liberty: Knox, McDougall, Lamb, Hamilton, Steuben, Shaw, Humphreys, Varick, Burnett, Hull, Fish, Tallmadge, the Clintons, Van Cortlandt, Fraunces. Heroes all.