The president had also to order the insurgents to disband before he could mobilize the militia. This was the procedure that President George Washington followed during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.

22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... Gradually, he learned to fight the British more strategically, using local militia to harass them and avoiding “a general action ...

127.32 x 101.6 cm. (50.1 x 40 in.) ...