George Washington is the first and only president to lead troops in the field while holding the office. He reviews assembled troops at Fort Cumberland during the rebellion in Pennsylvania. His action demonstrates that government can use military force to support its will, to tax its citizens and to suppress violent resistance to its laws.
George Washington takes the field in military uniform for the last time to subdue a growing rebellion against a tax on whiskey and show western Pennsylvania farmers that the government enforces its central role.
