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THE BEDFORD STORY - THE WHISKEY REBELLION

by Ned Frear

The Whiskey Rebellion by Ned Frear  

When President George Washington marched the army to Bedford in 1794 to subdue the Whiskey Rebellion , there was vastly more at stake than putting down an uprising of farmers angered by a tax on whiskey. A modern historian concluded: It was at Bedford that the new federal government was finally to establish itself as sovereign in its own time and place.

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